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huge shout out to AMD for sponsoring this video from CES 2017 learn more

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about their ryzen processors at the link in the video description so we rolled

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into the Seagate Booth where they were showing off all kinds of stuff including

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their 12 big from l c which supports up to 120 terab of storage over Thunderbolt

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3 with noct to a fans cooling it man those guys have good taste then we kind

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of went come on you guys show us the really cool stuff so we rolled into the

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big room where they're demoing all kinds of stuff and I went straight for this

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this my friends is the as yet unnamed to

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my knowledge 60 terte SSD it's in a 3

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and 1/2 in form factor and exists sort

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of as mostly a technology showcase to

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show how Seagate has been investing in the R&D to address this many flash d

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using some Bridge chip technology that they borrowed from

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sass pretty freaking cool so naturally

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of course the first thing I wanted to do was open it up and have a look inside

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where I found that it's actually a dummy

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unit I have told Seagate that I intend to be the first media Outlet to preview

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this thing once I can get my hands on a working one but uh

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unfortunately this is not this is not that day so you might ask yourself

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what's the anticipated use case of a 60 terb SSD and I actually got some pretty

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interesting answers cuz it's still by the look of things not going to be PCI

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Express based and so they clearly don't

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expect it to be really any faster than what you might get from existing SATA or

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SAS technology and the answer is well look because there's no flash controller

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on the market that has enough data paths

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to address each of those nandy individually or even you know a handful

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of them at a time this drive is going to deal with more latency and less speed

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than one of their high performance drives like say for example this Nitro

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10 Gigabyte per second drive that

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reaches a capacity of 8 terabytes at the

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moment that one's going to be a real product pretty soon no the use case here

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is going to be somewhere in between massive massive arrays of data and

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high-speed PCI Express based SSD caches

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what this will allow a company like Ade

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uh Facebook for example to do is store

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Grandma's pictures that haven't been accessed for over a year on Facebook on

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a storage medium that is fast enough for

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people to be hitting them you know randomly pulling up a few photos at a

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time and high capacity enough that it's

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actually feasible to keep things like Grandma's photos on it so you don't have

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to sit around and wait for a page to load while a hard drive spins up but

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Facebook doesn't have to be spending you know or5 per gig on the storage that they're

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using to store it I heard pricing

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numbers thrown around of like $50,000 a

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drive but uh what I'll say is this if you're the kind of customer who wants

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one of these you're the kind of customer who's not just ordering one so if you

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bulk at that price point then uh you're probably not the intended market and

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pricing could be highly variable depending on what kind of nand flash

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they're putting in the drive which would basically be down to the individual

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customer so at this point in the video a fair question might be lonus do we

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really need a 60 terb SSD and the answer is while I think they are planning to

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productize this this year maybe not

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necessarily immediately but the need is definitely coming so seate projects that

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in 2019 one zetabyte of data will be

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shipped in that calendar year with 1.3

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zettabytes the following year I mean to put that number perspective if we take

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it back down to gigabytes that's more gigabytes than there are grains of sand

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on the entire Earth and this issue of

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more content creation and needing more and more storage is actually going to

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get worse so in that same year in the

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2019 2020 time frame they're expecting

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600 zettabytes of data to be created to

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go with that 1.3 zaby of storage that

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will be shipped so the answer

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is yes we do need it and much sooner

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than you might probably think so a huge

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2017 check out the new Vega GPU

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