10 TB Solid State Drives Coming...

Huge news and benefit for us computer audio fans.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/27/toshiba-intel-3d-nand-chips/?ncid=rss_truncated

 

I will like that.

 

Me too.

 

Things are starting to get amazingly large whilst being amazingly tiny... I had an experience like this in college.

 

"Micron said the chips could be used to make gum-stick sized M.2 PCIe SSDs up to 3.5TB in size and 2.5-inch SSDs with 10TB of capacity"

Wow.

 

Shut up and take my money.

 

Very nice.

 

LOL!

 

wow. I have an 8TB library..so...wow.

 

"Soon" and "could" need to be taken into context in these sorts of future technology announcements. Don't excited quite yet.

 

Make sure you make backups! When the 3TB drives came out, the failure rates went way up.

Now, if we could get reasonably priced 10TB SSDs, we would be set! I love how quiet SSDs are

 

Until we know they are reliable and durable, I'd be really careful until they get proven. They may be the best ever, but you don't want to lose that much data quickly either.

 

My library fits on 1TB so I am OK at the moment. Amazing, though.

 

Exactly what I was thinking.

Darryl

 

I do not see how this gets me any closer to a jetpack.

 

Slacker!!!... Rip more music... Up the bit rate...

 

Samsung claims that the new technology is 2-10X more reliable than its ancestors, and twice as quick at writing data.

 

Or rip some Blu-ray music. The Steven Wilson "Hand Cannot Erase" Blu-ray is 34.5 GB. More if you extract and include high-res FLAC for each track and for both 2.0 and 5.1.

I'm over a TB, and that's not including video and my live eTree concert recordings. A 3.5 TB M.2 size flash drive in a dedicated little media player PC would do.

 

It was around 1990 when I purchased a 1GB SCSI drive for a standalone workstation. For $10k. 10TB? Freaking awesome!

 

No Blu-ray here. I don't even own a DVD player.

 

I am back into vinyl these days but I ripped everything that I had including SACDs and I now have 22,000 songs on 4X 1TB SSD drives. The only sound is the basic fans in the external cases they are mounted into. I plug them in via USB into a Meitner MA-1 DAC. Nice library once it was all done. Still prefer vinyl, but really nice.

 

That's one way to keep your file storage needs from getting out of control.

I'm shopping for a NAS right now. Trying to figure out how much storage I might need. It would be for both media storage and general file storage and backups for the computers. Thinking about either 8TB or 12TB. It seems like a lot of storage. I know it would get filled. I'm wondering now if my next NAS will be all SSD.

 

Jesus Horse, I am so freaking old. Remember how in the late 80s you were super-cool if your computer had like a 10 megabyte hard drive rather than dual floppy drives? Still no flying cars or teleportation, though. Bummer.