Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!

• golli@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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