so this is something that's always bothered me it seems like everyone else
gets high density high capacity storage whether it's usb thumb drives that have
been available in capacities as big as you know 256 gigs fairly cheaply for
years or even up to a terabyte if you want to spring for one of those kingston ones phones are all the way up to 128
gigs microsd cards i think are available in like 256 gig at this point
msata ssds i mean we're talking full blown ssds are available in up to one
terabyte capacities so why is it
that when it comes to two and a half inch ssds for your full size laptop or
your desktop we've been stuck at the same damn one terabyte capacity for so
long with samsung only recently releasing a two terabyte SSD
so in today's video we're going to be introducing two things number one
is the largest SSD that i have ever had my hands on this is a
3.84 terabyte SSD
and number two is a new format inspired
by this thing that we're calling holy
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so i think the appropriate way to start something like this when you got like
something really cool and interesting and different
is with one of our classic unboxings so let's go ahead and rip this baby open
and find out what exactly a 3.84 terabyte
SSD looks like
the answer is that aside from the
horrendous box with the three-year warranty policy
thing in it clearly designed for people who don't care about the retail packaging
exactly the same as any other SSD i mean
okay sure you've got the 3.84 terabyte
capacity written on there there's probably some other specs like uh
there's your power consumption so it consumes about 4.1 watts of power when
it's being written to it's rated at 540 megabytes per second read 480 megabytes
per second right and can handle 99 000 iops when it comes to random
4k at a q depth of 32 so that's pretty
respectable but only about 18 000 iops
and again that's 4k random at a q depth of 32 when it comes to writes meaning
that this is definitely a reads optimized drive in terms of the form
factor if you check it out it's got a standard state of power standard SATA
data yes my friends everything that's interesting about this drive
pretty much is under the hood so why don't we open it up
i don't know if i'll ever stop appreciating the irony of these kits
being called ifixit when they let me use one because i never use them to fix
anything i'm usually breaking stuff whatever warranties are for chumps
anyway and if if i didn't open it up how would i show
you where all the magic blue smoke gets uh
gets held while the drive is operating all right so first thing you're going to
notice a bunch of flash chips actually not that many in the context of how large the
drive is each one of these is about 480 gigabytes of capacity wrap your freaking
brain around that and the way they achieve that is in a couple of ways first of all they are tlc flash which
means that they can store three bits per cell that gives better capacity and
lower cost per capacity although you do
trade off some right endurance as well as right performance and then the other
one the big one is the fact that they are using samsung's 3d v nand with 32
layers of flash memory stacked instead
of just relying on moore's law to continue to spread out all of those
cells so that is what has enabled them to deliver this puppy both at a
reasonable cost and in a reasonable form
factor but of course there's more technology on board as well so you're
gonna find a tantalum capacitor on here that's going to allow the cache to flush
to the nand chips in the event of a sudden power loss as well as well you
won't be able to see it but inside samsung's proprietary controller you'll
find some ecc correction technology as well as wear leveling trim and all that
good stuff that allows the drive to perform as well as it does and this is
cool in spite of the fact that it uses tlc
flash this drive is rated at a 2 million hour mean time between failure and rated
at 5 600 terabytes of total data written
and within its sort of useful life span so to put that in perspective that would
be writing the entire capacity of this drive 3.84 terabytes per day for four
years every day before you would use up what samsung rates it at
but enough about that let's go ahead and plug it into a bench and well if nothing
else find out if it still works basically what i'm doing right now is
i'm demonstrating exactly how to not benchmark an SSD and i'm going to copy a
file from my SSD onto a RAM disk so you can see
it's actually not going that fast and the reason for
that is that this SSD is not designed
for large contiguous file transfers it is designed rather
for something more like the application that we are going to be using it for
which is multiple users hitting it for something like streaming video all at
the same time so these ssds are going to act as a read cache for our video
editors to edit video files off of so they're going to be scrubbing back and
forth through video files they're going to be asking it for this clip and then
that clip and then you know moving through the timeline adding things
removing things and that is the kind of workload that something like this is
great for where we will be writing video clips to
it but we'll actually be reading them back many times for every time that we
write to them all right Linus so a video about a drive the cool things
about which you can't really demonstrate
thumbs actually hold on nope there are some things i can demonstrate and one of
them is the sheer data density of this so just for comparison
this is Intel 750 series NVMe SSD this
is a 1.2 terabyte drive and unlike that
drive what samsung has managed to do here is within that seven millimeter
form factor so it'll fit in pretty much any laptop or certainly any desktop
they have delivered 3.84 terabytes and
that's pretty impressive but you know
micro sd cards right like they're huge no no this is where it gets really cool
so this is as good as it gets for a hard drive these days this is almost as good
as it gets for even three and a half inch hard drives now so to put it in
perspective this is about half the capacity of this guy right here
very cool but not actually the coolest thing about it the coolest thing about
this puppy is the cost per Gigabyte and
you guys are like oh yeah i knew he was coming to this eventually how much does it cost so this guy right here is going
to set you back about 2 200
u.s dollars to which most of you are probably going to go
excuse me you're going gonna tell me this is a value in terms of cost per
Gigabyte uh yeah actually because while i
am not here to tell you guys that you should all run out and buy one of these
today so you can keep all your steam games on one SSD yay because most games
loading times are not even any faster on faster storage no no no where the cost
per Gigabyte benefit comes in is in the sheer density of it like in a data
center application let's say netflix for example wants to roll out you know racks
on racks on racks of new servers with you know all the latest hey say for
example cool movies that you and all your friends want to watch well rather
than just the cost of this guy to worry about it's only about 55 cents per gig
which is pretty good especially given like a few
years ago we were paying over a dollar there's more to worry about than just
this cost there's the cost of the drive cage it sits in the cost of the SATA
controller that controls that cage the cost of the CPU that runs that system
the cost of the actual real estate inside a data center that that server
has to sit inside so if you can double the amount of storage that again
someone like a video streaming service can have per drive sled you are gonna
have a whole lot of folks saying shut up
and take my money and that is the most impressive thing about this puppy but
what's the application to you you might ask well right now not a whole lot like
i said i'm not recommending that you run out and buy one of these although if you
are a baller then i you could certainly do a lot worse um
no the applicability to you is that bleeding edge hardware like this always
starts in the enterprise space and within whether it's two years or ten
years eventually makes its way down to the consumer level so the fact that it's
finally started we finally have ssds
that not only even on a density
level but also just on a sheer capacity level are catching up to hard drives
means that that can't be that far away
so this is cool we've actually got a giveaway to announce we've collaborated
with rockette makers of gaming peripherals to give away not one not two
not three not four not five not six not seven but eight of their gaming mice so
there's a couple of different models and depending on how you get drawn by the
way you enter at the link to the forum in the video description you can win
either a cairo which has a 2000 dpi
sensor up to 4000 stable with their overdrive mode as well as a clean
ergonomic design a soft touch service and a design that is optimized for both
right and left-handed use or you could win yourself a kova so that features
their pro-optic r6 sensor which is a 3500 dpi sensor which can handle up to
7000 with their overdrive mode it's got their smartcast intuitive button layout
that doubles the standard m1 and m2 functions it features two levels 16.8
million multi-color illumination on the scroll wheel and the mouse rim and that
one is designed to be ambidextrous as well so head over to the link in the
video description and leave a comment on the video saying hey thanks rocket we
love these kinds of giveaways you should do more of them because they're freaking
awesome but don't wait you've only got seven
days to enter starting from the post date of this video so
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