freaking ridiculous wait hold on a second 13.9 terabytes this qx
extra-large SSD has a whopping
15.3 terabytes of capacity that's right
my friends over 15 terabytes on a single
ssc this thing probably has more storage in it than your entire household what
would you even do with this get off this
much solid stage storage and how much would you pay for it i i legit want to
know can you guys leave a comment below what would you do with this how much would you pay as for what we would do
with it well i've got some ideas
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unlike the 100 terabyte extra drive from nimbus data that we checked out recently
this drive from team group fits in a standard two and a half inch bay hasn't
been mercilessly disassembled yet and is aimed at consumers to put in
a normal gaming rig like the one behind me right there crazy right
it's crazy to think about like on these two two and a half inch drive sleds but
boom 30 terabytes of solid-state storage you know there was a trend in ssds where
at first they were made of like really thick housings so they'd feel like
quality and then over time you know the pc industry they cheaped out and cheaped
out until they were basically made of aluminum foil and the internals but this
one's heavy you notice that it's heavy there's a lot an end a lot of nand chips
in there and i mean compared to a hard drive it weighs practically nothing like
look at that this is 12 up to 20 terabytes
15 terabytes i mean no wonder the data center loves SSD now it's not cheap but
dense for sure okay let's pop that puppy on there
where'd the cable go oh wow it's like you went out of your way
to get the most ass looking SATA cable
thank you for that thanks for nothing
let's go ahead and fire it up ladies and gentlemen there it is there's our c
drive 446 gigabytes ew and then we got
the big o drive that's a lot of that's a lot of
terabytes freaking ridicul wait hold on
a second 13.9 terabytes what happened to
my 15.3 what a ripoff i believe this is
what's known as a bra moment kids can you verify please is
to say bra moment okay it's not because
team group uses standard gigabytes for their specifications where one Gigabyte
is 1 000 megabytes which is 1 000
kilobytes etc but microsoft likes to
think different so to speak and they use tabby bytes and gibby bytes instead so
what that means is that to Windows 1 Gigabyte is
1024 megabytes which is 1024 kilobytes
because of this discrepancy Windows only sees the drive as being about 91
of its actual capacity i wish that this problem would just go away but for that
to happen we'd have to get all the software engineers to agree with all the hardware engineers and they both have to
agree with all the marketing people which i think we all know is never going
to this puppy is rated at 560 megabytes per
second reads and up to 480 megabytes per second right not real impressive by
today's standards where you'll find drives that are like
three four five six gigabytes a second
reads and writes of course sequential reads and writes are not the
be-all and end-all of drive performance anyway
okay so we won't be doing any sequential
drive speed porn with this particular drive i mean it definitely meets the
rated spec 550 megabytes a second reads but that's
okay because we've actually got that coming with an early look at kiosia's
next gen u.3 enterprise drive so get
subscribed so you don't miss that one this this is more about this is more of
a capacity play but why is it so slow this is a brand new drive well there's a
couple of reasons first of all it uses the SATA interface which is
getting on an age and not being revised anymore for higher speeds because it's
been mostly replaced by pci express number two is that it uses the ahci
protocol which really was designed for
magnetic drives not for ssds that's why
all those new pci express drives use NVMe instead but it's got other problems
even if it hooked up to a faster interface it uses qlc nand which
sacrifices some of its durability and its performance for the sake of cramming
in more capacity so this sabrant qnvme
pci em.2 is another perfect example of a
qlc product it's an 8 terabyte drive but of course
gives up some performance particularly on writes still it's impressive though
cramming 15 freaking terabytes of data into this tiny enclosure with no moving
parts and there's plenty of performance for a
lot of things you might want to do so let's have a look at some of the stuff
that our probation ow probation writer
copied onto the drive see if we can bring it to its knees hello
did it uh lock up again is this thing just like a piece of it
obviously for our viewers a big one would be games you guys might have
noticed that uh we only managed to fill up like
one and a half terabytes of this thing to put this in context this drive can
fit 61 copies of cod warzone on it and
when it comes to loading times let's use grand theft auto 5 as our example is the
game with notoriously long loading times fire up some story mode here and in the
meantime i'll give you some more context for how huge this thing is
307 ultra hd 4k blu-ray movies nearly
3.1 million songs if we assume the
average stream quality is an mp3 file that's roughly 5 megabytes
not bad right not bad now in the future game loading
time performance could be affected by technologies like direct storage oh my
goodness okay which
in the future you could run into bottlenecks with games that use direct
storage which is going to allow much much faster level loading times kind of
like you see in the playstation 5 and the xbox series but for now with
classically designed games i wouldn't expect any appreciable performance
difference between this and just about anything else man this poor titan is
really showing its age here it smells this is one of our old editing
stations it freezes if you move it around too much
sit tight enough of that though sorry new writer
we don't have time to look at your memes and smash mouth collection somebody once
told me that it's just not worth our audience's time
uh time to disassemble this thing so
i think you just pop off those four screws and
crack it open right wait how much does this thing cost should i be worried
about breaking it no don't don't tell me don't spoil it there's a screw under
here hold on hey there it is
all right that's a pretty normal looking drive we got
eight nan flash chips here we've got two
dram chips mounted here what's this uh have we googled this part number yet i
want to know how much RAM this freaking thing has because theoretically it
should have like eight to 16 gigs and there's no way there's like there's no
way they did that but this is 26 66 megahertz
ddr4 and i believe these are actually 16
gigabit dies so that would mean that
there's at least four gigs of RAM and i've only looked at one side of the pcb
what are these fizen chips here oh my god my eyes are going i need my
reading glasses or or ha
holy this thing actually has eight gigs of
RAM there's two more t-rex on the other
side this thing is freaking nuts
are these power loss capacitors over here does this thing have power loss
protection oh my god i guess you'd need so many of them because in order to
flush eight gigabytes of data this thing would have to stay powered for a
freaking long time holy crap balls so
every one of these nand packages here is a
bite okay it's got eight gigabytes of RAM and
is using a faison
ps3112 so like yeah fine that is some
sweet engineering to be clear team group does not advertise any kind
of power loss protection i am i'm guessing that that's what these puppies
are for one thing to note however is that the bill of materials for this
particular drive can apparently change from unit to unit because this is a
non-standard sku and is actually built to order not sure if that's a huge
problem since this isn't the sort of thing that your average consumer can buy
given that it caught oh my god we got to the part of the script where i find out
how much it cost 4 000
and making matters more challenging is the
fact that you could actually buy two of these eight terabyte pci express drives
and enough hoodies to wear a new one every day of the week from
ltteststore.com for significantly less money than one of
these not to mention that it would be way faster i could see it being useful
for maybe video editors or a high capacity storage server that uses two
and a half inch bays but funny thing is it's not super great for large amounts
of sustained writes since its right endurance is only 2 560 terabytes now
that's still a lot it's actually comparable to a 4 terabyte samsung 860
evo but it's relatively low for a 16
terabyte excuse me 15.3 terabyte drive
since you could only actually wipe and refill this thing
167 times that doesn't feel like a lot of times for four thousand dollars
maybe you just want long-term storage with higher reliability than a hard
drive and you have money to burn okay so
it doesn't matter the drive has its uses but it's not an economy or budget option
and it also doesn't really make sense if you're an enthusiast since you'd be better served with a smaller
higher performance drive and then maybe some kind of
magnetic storage with an SSD cache on it or something but if you absolutely need
15 terabytes in a two and a half inch data enclosure then i guess this is
there for you for you and only you it's dang cool though isn't
it so good job team group for making this weird thing because you could even
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if you guys enjoyed this video you might also enjoy the video where we checked
out the nimbus data 100 terabyte drive
that one architecturally very different but is designed for a very different use