15T SSD now shipping. Got $10K?

[mikehalloran]

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/ ... pecs-price


Solid state drive
15.36 TB
internal
2.5"
SAS 12Gb/s
The Samsung PM1633a Solid State Drive is a great choice for enterprise storage systems. The solid state drive features a highly dependable metadata protection mechanism and a data protection and restoration software tool to make systems more stable and manageable. It is capable of 15.36 TB of data storage on a single SSD. Based on the popular 12 Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI interface, it supports 1 DWPD and uses 3D V-NAND Technology for greater reliability. This high-performance solid state hard drive sports random read and write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 IOPS respectively, and it delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,200 Mb/s.
Internal hard drive with high storage capacity and exceptional performance
Features latest vertical NAND flash technology with innovative controller and firmware technology for optimum performance
Compact 2.5" form factor suitable for efficient use in enterprise storage systems

A bit rich for my blood but considering that I paid $1,000 for a 20mB drive in 1986...

[buzzsmith]

Reminds me that I seem to remember paying around $600.00 to upgrade the RAM in my original Mac from 128K to 1 Meg!


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[Phil O]

I had a SCSI hard drive that fit under my Mac SE. I think it was 40MB (that's MB not GB). I can't remember what I payed for it, but I'm sure it was way too much.

Phil

[buzzsmith]

A studio friend of mine paid $2000 for the first ONE gig hard drive.


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[Rick Cornish]

Yes---I had one of those little SCSI drives that fit under my Mac Plus. 20 throbbing megabytes. Not sure what it cost (my employer at the time bought it), but it came dearly.

[HCMarkus]

I had the original 1984 Mac. Upgraded it to a "Fat Mac", then, some time later, had a SCSI port installed and got me a hard drive. Can't remember what it cost or how big it was, but the point I want to make is this: those were the days before audio resided on a computer, and we didn't need the huge drives we have today.

During this period, all my audio "files" were etched in rust on tape that was slaved, via Opcode's SMPTE Sync Box, to the Mac, which hosted my MIDI-only Performer (the Digital Performer precursor) files. This system, along with the first DAT machines, first enabled the small studio to get results rivaling the big studios, with their million$ in mixing desks and tape machines, and I was in heaven.

Although the referenced SSD is beyond the needs of those engaged in audio work today, its availability drives home the point that inexpensive consumer SSDs are no longer a luxury; they are affordable workflow-enhancing necessities that belong in everyone's studio computers.

[mikehalloran]

Although the referenced SSD is beyond the needs of those engaged in audio work today, its availability drives home the point that inexpensive consumer SSDs are no longer a luxury; they are affordable workflow-enhancing necessities that belong in everyone's studio computers.

I couldn't agree more.

The only thing I use HHDs in are Apple Time Capsules and I'll go to SSDs when Apple does. I've not seen a way to enable TRIM over ethernet. At the moment, I am upgrading my TCs to 6TB HHDs now that AppleCare has expired on them (WD Red 5400 on the recommendation of a friend who works for WD).

I'll be using the old drives for archival storage and to back up my VIs.

[Shooshie]

I paid $2000 for my first 10 MB hard drive for my original Macintosh. Then I paid another $2000 for a 4 megabyte RAM upgrade.

The drive was General Computing's Hyperdrive. 10 megabytes. Seemed like infinite space. Oh man. So much money spent on such a primitive little computer.

But they enabled me to use "Switcher" by Andy Hirschfeld, one of the writers of the original Mac's OS. Switcher allowed you to load many applications at once and switch between them, much like today's Spaces (Mission Control). I kept a database, spreadsheet, outliner and word processor loaded all day long as I sold the performing arts all over North and South America during the years I worked as an agent so as to gain connections and learn the real "business" of music. It boosted my sales above everyone else in the office, and soon everyone else was buying a Mac and doing the same thing.

Now... 15 TB? I shudder at the thought. Anyone who ever fills that up has more stuff than they could ever return to in a lifetime.

Of course, next will be virtual reality or enhanced reality that uses petabytes of information to generate a world around you that you can't tell from the real thing. I'll like that, because it will mean I won't have to get on a plane ever again! Maybe.

Shooshie

[David Polich]

I don't need an SSD that badly.

[Phil O]

Yes you do. Trust me. If you get an SSD you'll never go back. And, it doesn't need to be 15TB. There are some very reasonably priced offers large enough for a boot drive that will make your computer feel like a new machine. Just do it! Ask Mike. He's the SSD guru around these parts.

Phil

[mikehalloran]

I don't need an SSD that badly.

Not $10K badly of course

...but $150-500MB, $300-1T or $600-2T will make a Mac feel like a new machine. All of those prices can be beat with careful shopping. An adapter that lets one fit a Mac Pro tower runs about $12 or less.

Best bang for the buck, hands down.

[monkey man]

Reminds me that I seem to remember paying around $600.00 to upgrade the RAM in my original Mac from 128K to 1 Meg!

How 'bout $600 to upgrade my ATARI 400 (the touch-pad one) to... 32k RAM?