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This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!
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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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Is it a mechanical drive?
Show me a 40tb ssd lol
How about a 122.88tb SSD? Large SSDs are pretty common in the enterprise market and arguably much easier to manufacture since you only need to put a bunch of nand chips on a pcb.
Sure, but those that know of this, know that these news articles aren't talking about ssd. This is hype news for consumer stuff.
"you only"
I mean comparatively to HDDs.
Of course there are also challenges to making a high capacity SSD, but i don't think they are using fundamentally new methods to achieve higher capacities. Yes they need to design better controllers and heat management becomes a larger factor, but the nand chips to my knowledge are still the same you'd see in smaller capacities. And the form factor has the space to accomodate them.
If HDDs could just continue to stack more of the same platters into a drive to increase capacity they'd have a much easier time to scale.