Read more.And is working on a 5TB model for launch later this quarter.
Read more.And is working on a 5TB model for launch later this quarter.
Expensive but finally caught up with HDD sizes.
It's now a matter of time
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Just schlepped over the Best Buy site and they'll sell you a 960GB Transcend for $479, or Amazon US have a 1TB Samsung 850 Evo for $419, so I'm less than impressed with the Fixstars pricing.Currently Fixstars sells the 3TB SSD-3000M, and 1TB SSD-1000M and will be launching a 5TB version called the 5000M before Q1 2015 is over. If you are wondering about pricing, the Fixstars order quote page lists a base price of US$990 + tax for the 1TB SSD-1000M.
Think I'll wait until the major players, (Samsung, Sandisk, Crucial, etc), get the >1TB drives out there. By the way Amazon US' price for the 2TB Sandisk is $2960.54, so the prices will have to fall (a lot!) before I'm interested.
mtyson (18-02-2015)
this is great news! so it shouldn't be too long till I can replace my 3 x 2tb drives in my laptop with 3 x 5tb SSD's, more space and much faster speed. or a new laptop with just a couple of 5tb SSD's would be pretty amazing too, as laptops that allow you to use 3 HDD's aren't so common and my current 17" does weigh a tonne
Main PC: Asus Rampage IV Extreme / 3960X@4.5GHz / Antec H1200 Pro / 32GB DDR3-1866 Quad Channel / Sapphire Fury X / Areca 1680 / 850W EVGA SuperNOVA Gold 2 / Corsair 600T / 2x Dell 3007 / 4 x 250GB SSD + 2 x 80GB SSD / 4 x 1TB HDD (RAID 10) / Windows 10 Pro, Yosemite & Ubuntu
HTPC: AsRock Z77 Pro 4 / 3770K@4.2GHz / 24GB / GTX 1080 / SST-LC20 / Antec TP-550 / Hisense 65k5510 4K TV / HTC Vive / 2 x 240GB SSD + 12TB HDD Space / Race Seat / Logitech G29 / Win 10 Pro
HTPC2: Asus AM1I-A / 5150 / 4GB / Corsair Force 3 240GB / Silverstone SST-ML05B + ST30SF / Samsung UE60H6200 TV / Windows 10 Pro
Spare/Loaner: Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / i950 / 12GB / HD7870 / Corsair 300R / Silverpower 700W modular
NAS 1: HP N40L / 12GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Arrays || NAS 2: Dell PowerEdge T110 II / 24GB ECC RAM / 2 x 3TB Hybrid arrays || Network:Buffalo WZR-1166DHP w/DD-WRT + HP ProCurve 1800-24G
Laptop: Dell Precision 5510 Printer: HP CP1515n || Phone: Huawei P30 || Other: Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Pro 10.1 CM14 / Playstation 4 + G29 + 2TB Hybrid drive
Never heard of them. No point in taking a risk!
I'll take the risk if Hexus pop one of these into a competition. :-D
Sounds like they're clustering eMMC chips. Cheap, not particularly reliable (low binned NAND ends up in eMMC), and slow as hell for random reads/writes.To manufacture the SSD-3000M 3TB SSD Fixstars says it used flash memory designed for use in "small-scale mobile devices," fitting them into a standard 2.5-inch form factor "free of heat and performance issues".
I'll stick with spinning rust for long term stuff. Getting anything back from an SSD that dies is damn near impossible. At least with HDD you have some chance.
With both SSDs and HDDs that die, the best recovery is the backup disk. You do *have* a backup disk don't you?!
It's a question that I ask myself every time I lose a drive. It hasn't always been "Yes", let alone "yes, of course!". Sometimes it's been "Well, yes, in theory, but, er, I ran out of space and started deleting stuff". ;o)
Finally, a 3TB ssd. The downside is a $990 price tag just for the 1RB variant. What a joke, bearing in mind you can purchase a Samsung 1TB ssd for £260 from Amazon. A year ago, I read a Hexus report that Sandisk were going to release SSD's in the following sizes - 2TB, 4TB and 8TB by the end of 2014. Well it is now almost the end of February 2015 and still nowt from Sandisk. BTW, the Fixstar 1TB and 3TB ssd use the same MLC-NAND controller as the Samsung ssd's. So why the massive price mark up?.
So $990 is £650, or thereabouts. Add 20% VAT and you get £780
1TB Samsung SSD is £260, times 3 is £780
I don't get your point.
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