huge shout out to AMD for sponsoring this video from CES 2017 learn more
about their ryzen processors at the link in the video description so we rolled
into the Seagate Booth where they were showing off all kinds of stuff including
their 12 big from l c which supports up to 120 terab of storage over Thunderbolt
3 with noct to a fans cooling it man those guys have good taste then we kind
of went come on you guys show us the really cool stuff so we rolled into the
big room where they're demoing all kinds of stuff and I went straight for this
this my friends is the as yet unnamed to
my knowledge 60 terte SSD it's in a 3
and 1/2 in form factor and exists sort
of as mostly a technology showcase to
show how Seagate has been investing in the R&D to address this many flash d
using some Bridge chip technology that they borrowed from
sass pretty freaking cool so naturally
of course the first thing I wanted to do was open it up and have a look inside
where I found that it's actually a dummy
unit I have told Seagate that I intend to be the first media Outlet to preview
this thing once I can get my hands on a working one but uh
unfortunately this is not this is not that day so you might ask yourself
what's the anticipated use case of a 60 terb SSD and I actually got some pretty
interesting answers cuz it's still by the look of things not going to be PCI
Express based and so they clearly don't
expect it to be really any faster than what you might get from existing SATA or
SAS technology and the answer is well look because there's no flash controller
on the market that has enough data paths
to address each of those nandy individually or even you know a handful
of them at a time this drive is going to deal with more latency and less speed
than one of their high performance drives like say for example this Nitro
10 Gigabyte per second drive that
reaches a capacity of 8 terabytes at the
moment that one's going to be a real product pretty soon no the use case here
is going to be somewhere in between massive massive arrays of data and
high-speed PCI Express based SSD caches
what this will allow a company like Ade
uh Facebook for example to do is store
Grandma's pictures that haven't been accessed for over a year on Facebook on
a storage medium that is fast enough for
people to be hitting them you know randomly pulling up a few photos at a
time and high capacity enough that it's
actually feasible to keep things like Grandma's photos on it so you don't have
to sit around and wait for a page to load while a hard drive spins up but
Facebook doesn't have to be spending you know or5 per gig on the storage that they're
using to store it I heard pricing
numbers thrown around of like $50,000 a
drive but uh what I'll say is this if you're the kind of customer who wants
one of these you're the kind of customer who's not just ordering one so if you
bulk at that price point then uh you're probably not the intended market and
pricing could be highly variable depending on what kind of nand flash
they're putting in the drive which would basically be down to the individual
customer so at this point in the video a fair question might be lonus do we
really need a 60 terb SSD and the answer is while I think they are planning to
productize this this year maybe not
necessarily immediately but the need is definitely coming so seate projects that
in 2019 one zetabyte of data will be
shipped in that calendar year with 1.3
zettabytes the following year I mean to put that number perspective if we take
it back down to gigabytes that's more gigabytes than there are grains of sand
on the entire Earth and this issue of
more content creation and needing more and more storage is actually going to
get worse so in that same year in the
2019 2020 time frame they're expecting
600 zettabytes of data to be created to
go with that 1.3 zaby of storage that
will be shipped so the answer
is yes we do need it and much sooner
than you might probably think so a huge
shout out again to AMD for sponsoring our coverage of CES
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