256TB SSDs by Samsung: What You Need to Know 

*Christopher Walken's voice* : It's crazy !

Data centers ought to focus more on storing data that people have asked them to store instead of data that people would prefer they did not store. That would decrease the required capacity by several orders of magnitude. As it is, they store everything because 1) they lack the ability to discern what's worth storing from what's not and 2) because they're being paid to store everything. Their _direct, intentional_ customers are big corporations and governments that actually have asked them to store such vast amounts of data...data their _involuntary_ customers would prefer not be stored. But that's world in which we live. This comment may never be read or referred to by anyone, but it will be stored in perpetuity just because the technology exists and nobody bothers to properly parse data before storing it.

8TB HD 3.5" $150-250, 8TB M.2 $999! for back up the old style HD is still viable and a considerably less cost. Of course I'd rather have the m.2. 256TB that's insane lol When I started with a tandy trs 80 it had 16k! We've come along way!

I recently purchased 4TB, NOS, enterprise 3.5" drives for $50 shipped. I'll wait patiently for 100TB ssd in a 3.5" case with integrated cooling.

I think I bought my last ever HDD this week! (I bought a 2TB WD USB HDD purely for data backup, and it was cheaper than an SSD, and speed wasn't a huge factor for me)

Looking at the power to terabyte equation it seems like it's really the terabyte to controller ratio. The 256TB used 7 times less than 8 x 32TB. That's pretty much 8 controllers vs 1. I wonder what the power ratio is 8 x 4TB ssds vs 1x32TB ssd. I suspect it's the same.

I would still use 3.5 HDD's for archiving 4k and 8k footage. Or just to put these massive files into storage, so that it can be edited later. Okay maybe editing 8k on a 3.5 is not ideal, but I do believe HDD's will continue to add value to the consumer, much like vinyl records are still in use today.

Didn't Microsoft already create the ability to RAID1 at the folder level in Windows Home Server nearly 20 years ago?

data center space is expensive compared to what the ssd prices will eventually be. SSD prices will continue to drop and data center space will continue to increase in cost, it's easy to predict the future here, you don't need to be Nostradamus to figure this out.

Getting TIE-Fighter to run was a nightmare. Not enough base RAM so you had to place as much stuff as possible in HIGH Mem. Every KB was crucial.

HDD still made sense until recently for small businesses for nas and local archive / local backup storage. However pricing the last few months went insane. We bought a couple of 12 TB HDDs about 2 years ago for ~140 $ including taxes. Same costs about 40-60 $ more at the moment. However affordable SSD are still maxed at about 8 TB capacity which means we would new / more hardware. (We do not shop enterprise hardware. And even there >8tb ssd is way more expansive.)

As capacity density goes up it only makes sense to move to faster storage. What sense is there in a medium with such a huge capacity to access/transfer speed ratio that it takes over a week to read it? Ofc you should have multiple copies of everything you care about on as many devices, but you might have to copy things from a failing medium. The required time might not be realistic on a 20TiB or higher capacity HDD.

hemm just need 2 then for my "art collection"...sorry i couldn't help it 😆

Almost two years ago now I bought a sabrent rocket nvme 8tb for 2k$. Thinking about another one so I can make backups of my Blu-ray's

I will only keep HDs for archive storage. The problem though, 5TB seems to be the limit for external bus powered HDs. I'm taking into consideration physical size and portability.

In windows 11 i have 4 8tb ssd and make one big drive g for games so everything gets installed there and keep 4tb c drive m2 just for ms game it doesnt let you install anywhere else and star citzen. And a 4tb m2 i use for high demending games and move them to normal ssd onve completed as ssds dropped a lot recently 200 for 8tb smasung ssd used to be 800 a few years ago

A lot of people are comparing regular SSDs with enterprise ones in the data center that are hammered by more usage (and have to have more redundant cells) and their prices are quite a bit different.

Why Son SSD with a capacity of 1zp?

Back in June last year I got a WD 12TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive for £185(Which I proceeded to crack open and stick in my case) and I'm thinking I might even get the 22TB one(which I will also crack open) eventually, when I have the cash and it's on offer.

Who can download the ssd 256 tb hard disk 1zb

Someone has got to be doing the math on when it makes more sense to have SSD's in data centers. Once the Enterprise stops buying HDD's it's all over. I saw an article that said 96% of all laptops ship with SSD's now. Not too many consumers are buying HDD's anymore. It's only a matter of time until we're all on SSD's.

it will be small soon.. gonna wait for a decent priced 1 or 2PB drive 😅

OMG. Still need them cheaper but would love to go more SSDs/nvmes. HDDs are cheaper for non game storage still.

5:43 "end of 2024 we'll have 8TB SSDs under $200" I REALLY hope so, because I'm planning on changing out my 120TB total external HDs for smaller Samsung 8TB external SSDs which cost like $500 a pop.

that SHOULD be enough for dcs!

Linux has made leaps recently in process scheduling and IO. Full size office apps open just as fast from cold as notepad used to. Disclaimer, my SSD was the fastest 2TB I could find for its cost with a memory cache and highly rated. Sk Hynix Platinum P41. R/W sequential ~7GB/s, random at worst is also well above what any HDD ever achieved sequentially.

Currently, the cost per TB for most SSDs is approximately $50. For a 256TB SSD, that would be approximately $12,800. If reliability could be guaranteed, that would still be a great price based on the $$$ per TB...

11.00 minutes in, Windows Home Server WHS, had that technology, and de duplication technology, and client backups. I was gutted when MS ended support of it. Just add another disk to your existing disks and your pool just got bigger.

All this on one bit data paths. ...

Technically it's possible for someone to develop SSDs, just configuring existing tech, we can line our walls with and use direct FSO (free space optics) for IO and power.

not even considering a hard drive in my new build. m.2 only

Technology is finally overcoming More's Law.

Will a 256 TB SSD even be supported by Windows 11 or later?

256TB is absolutely mental

This isn't the first time Samsung has announced massive SSDs, last time they never brought them to market.

samsung number 1

WuZuP?

As a kid that grew up finding a 500gb hard drive impressive, this is just mind boggling for me

This is nice and all but holy, it's gonna cost like $50,000.00 lol I think it's going to be more for data centers, icloud system and such. Nothing a regular user is gonna need or afford.

Finally i could play COD WarZone

PB SSD? We need a tech word that starts with J that we can put on the end so the world can have PB&J SSD's. 😎

SSDs are already cheaper than HHDs. As cheap as HHDs seem, when you factor in the increased speed, performance, power savings, physical size, longer lifespan, longer warranty, etc., SSDs and m.2 drives are both cheaper. Hell, they were effectively cheaper two years ago, back when 2TB m.2s were still going for about $400. Now that they're half that price or less, they are ABSOLUTELY cheaper, when you're looking at the longterm picture. And honestly, wouldn't you prefer to just get a nice drive that will do your needs, last a long while, and not have to worry about it? Out of the last four computers I owned, over longer than a decade, the first part to fail was the harddrive, every single time.

They need a solution to NVME and the lack of slots, having 1-4 slots in a motherboard is a joke. I've had 27TB for the last year or so, I just removed my HDDs as I don't need them and dropped down to 15TB. I have 10TB for games, which across 2x4TB SATAs and a 2TB NVME, and you better believe that's 2 thirds full. Then I have 2TB for Media stuff and 1TB for my music stuff with a 2TB for the boot drive. If I went all NVME because eventually SATA is gonna be useless, you can't use it for direct storage, They need to either improve SATA to be able to handle those speeds in the gigabytes, or allow bigger NVME drives at a reasonable cost. You can get an 8TB Gen4 NVME, (there might be Gen5s) but it's $1500AUD, an 8TB SATA is $600AUD. That's fine because the NVME drives are so much faster, but currently aside from Direct Storage, there's no difference between SATA and NVME, like I've never seen a game load quicker, play smoother, or Windows load quicker or anything on a Gen5 NVME vs even a slow SATA SSD. HDDs will still exist for stuff like camera recordings, I've done some CCTV stuff and SSDs won't likely improve CCTV, it'll just mean less drive failures. But if the same size SSDs like a 10TB SATA dropped down to like $250 where the HDDs are then it'll be fine. Aussie prices are pretty stupid, I know.

Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB 2.5" Solid State Drive $350.00

if one m.2 is 10tb, i am happy

They can barely handle 250 gb SSDs enough to last a solid year. I've got 10$ SSDs from Amazon that have already blown all Samsung drives out of the water. Well, i take that back because technically all Samsung drives have misfired and blown themselves out of the water.

I got rid of my last HDD in 2019 & I've never looked back! I only use M.2 NVMe SSDs now. #HDDsAreObsolete However, SSDs aren't created equal! The NAND cells get worse as technology advances! The new ones are just TLC & QLC! No vendor makes consumer products using SLC, or even MLC NAND drives anymore!

Letting microsoft handle where you store data? Please don't.

I for one will never buy another hard drive. It's SSD's all the way from here on out for me. They'll only get cheaper and better over time.

Advertise how to get W10 Pro, NON OEM, for LESS than $60, and then I will respect you(r) weak proposal...

I'm still buying HDD, under $100 for 8TB, HDD still massively beat SSD in $ per TB

I could go for a 8TB SSD at 200 dollars even if not as fast as my 2TB boot drive be good for just the games that recommend/require SSD speed of somesort. But at that time I would still buy one or two 20 plus TB hard drives for my main machine.