2TB SSDs

[Bozo]

Intel might be close to releasing 2TB SSDs.

 

[sedrosken]

What is sad is that I'd never fill a 128 GB one. I'm using just over 40 GB on my 250 GB HDD. That is with Windows 7 Ultimate (albeit x86, it still takes up a ridiculous amount of HDD space by itself), Skyrim, various older (but still space-sapping) games and their ISOs, and about 4 GB worth of media.

 

[Chewy509]

Interesting, the only question I have is: Are the PCIe models bootable? Or are they like the current PCIe versions, where they can only be a data drive in the system?

 

[sedrosken]

What is the point of having an SSD if not to be able to boot from it? Fast, expensive HDD storage?

 

[LunarMist]

What is the point of having an SSD if not to be able to boot from it? Fast, expensive HDD storage?

They are for servers and certain high performance workstations.

 

[sedrosken]

... That makes sense. To compensate for the somewhat slower access times across the network, they'd want to use much faster storage.

 

[CougTek]

The goal with large SSD drives is to replace SAN with large arrays of mecanical drives. Only one of these can put to shame a 40x 15Krpm HDD SAN in terms of IOps. Where SSDs won't replace mecanical drives soon is when large capacity is needed, without the high IOps requirement.

 

[Chewy509]

Not to mention the PCIe SSDs work fantastically as ZIL and L2ARC caches in ZFS setups...

 

[LunarMist]

Even the Intel 2.5"x15mm FF drives are powermongers. I'd love to buy standard SATA SSDs in 2TB capacity, but I think that will be a while.