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300 TB SSDs Could Arrive as Soon as 2026, Claims Pure Storage

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Hot diggity dang, a chart that nearly reaches full vertical rise before charted timeline is concluded!

Bish, bash, bosh; asymptote!!!
 

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SSD sizes have stagnated for a while in both 2.5" and M.2 variants
And will probably continue too. These are U2 drives. The closest U2 drives consumers recognize are the thick bois that only slightly resemble 2.5” SSDs. Imagine a 2.5” SSD only thicker and the entire casing is a heat sink with fins and your close.
 
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Not so sure about that given some of the sample systems around these forums. The less expensive 4TB SSD's are about ~$200 USD and change. So ~$50+ a TB for a 4TB SSD doesn't seem all that bad IMO. A lot of people can swing that. Now, 8TB SSDs for the great unwashed masses might be pushing it. Those are just under ~$600 USD to start.

The problem is, we had “almost affordable” 8 TB SSDs back in 2020. TechPowerUP review for Samsung 870 QVO has most damning title we have ever seen in this site:


Samsung 870 QVO 1 TB review: Terrible, Do Not Buy

And it’s a fair assessment, drive that falls to 80 MB/s after the cache is filled is terrible. But three years later nobody else challenged this drive - because SATA drives are out of fashion now, and you can’t cram 8 TB cheaply in M.2. And it doesn’t seem it’s going to improve, even though some 2TB M.2 drives have fallen to below $100 mark…
 
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The article talks about PureStorage's own SSD racks, which already have 63TB drives currently and probably larger (didn't look around too hard). It's not about consumer SSDs, I don't see those getting significantly cheaper, at most you'll be able to buy proper TLC drive with SLC+DRAM cache for the price of the low-end cache-less QLC drives, with those becoming even cheaper.
 
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The problem is, we had “almost affordable” 8 TB SSDs back in 2020. TechPowerUP review for Samsung 870 QVO has most damning title we have ever seen in this site:


Samsung 870 QVO 1 TB review: Terrible, Do Not Buy

And it’s a fair assessment, drive that falls to 80 MB/s after the cache is filled is terrible. But three years later nobody else challenged this drive - because SATA drives are out of fashion now, and you can’t cram 8 TB cheaply in M.2. And it doesn’t seem it’s going to improve, even though some 2TB M.2 drives have fallen to below $100 mark…
We need to find a way to force Manufacturers to offer us more storage. It's not like Games are getting smaller or people are making and editing less videos.
 
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The problem is, we had “almost affordable” 8 TB SSDs back in 2020. TechPowerUP review for Samsung 870 QVO has most damning title we have ever seen in this site:


Samsung 870 QVO 1 TB review: Terrible, Do Not Buy

And it’s a fair assessment, drive that falls to 80 MB/s after the cache is filled is terrible. But three years later nobody else challenged this drive - because SATA drives are out of fashion now, and you can’t cram 8 TB cheaply in M.2. And it doesn’t seem it’s going to improve, even though some 2TB M.2 drives have fallen to below $100 mark…

As an owner of an 8TB QVO I'd have to agree. The only capacity the 870 QVO makes sense in is 8TB and that's because that's the model with the largest cache. In addition you have to plan to only use that drives for data that's mostly going to be read and rarely written.

Really that the price is so high is a big disappointment.
 
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This is great news. A hypothetical 500-layer+ NAND could eventually enable enterprise HDD densities on low cost SSDs, I've always been a believer in the SSD tech, and while such extreme capacities would only serve the business segment, a lot of folks who swear by HDDs seem to forget that practically all ultra-high capacity drives are also enterprise grade, they're just inexpensive enough to fit on a regular consumer's pocket.

I hope this breakthrough is achieved, SSDs at the consumer segment have stagnated in capacity, and affordable devices have also stagnated at performance, which while very high, has room to greatly improve.

The mechanical HDD is a technology which should be riding into the sunset at the earliest convenience, IMHO.
 
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300TB?

Forget enterprise solutions, if likely, i'm still hoping one day we'll have decent consumer 4TB SSDs for ~£150 or 8TB for around the £300 mark. Or am i being too wishful?
I think you'll see the first one this year. Currently the Crucial p3 4tb model is going for $363 aud (directly conversion is 202 pounds) and it's dropped about 15% in the last 2 months.

I think unless we get a bump, the 8tb for the price you want is a next year thing.

I've bought drives for the same price (350ish aud) for the last 2 upgrades and gotten 4x the space of the last model about every 3 years.
 
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