Samsung unveils 2TB 850-series SSDs

[j.o.s.h.1408]

pricey!

[directhex]

Ditto here. I'm waiting for some genius to come up with a 3.5" form factor unit that takes multiple mSATA or m.2 drives and then RAID's them.

https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Hyper_Express/

[edzieba]

There are no 3.5" SSDs because it would just be a 2.5" SSD in a bigger case. You gain absolutely nothing from making the box bigger, because SSDs are not volume constrained.

I wonder how long the "SSD prices are in freefall" fluff piece will be parroted before people notice that £/gb prices aren't in freefall, but are reducing at the same rate that have been for the past few years (with some recent levelling off that may not be more than a short-term trend).

[jag272]

Greater capacity is all good in the long term, I still won't be buying until the prices on these things drop significantly though, but atleast I'll be able to go out and buy a 2TB SSD when they are actually reasonably priced now I guess.

[aidanjt]

Yeah, that's one thing I've never understood. Why are there no 3.5" SSD's? I mean just cram a little extra in there and you get a cheap-ish 8GB SSD...

Because the capacity limitation is NAND chip costs, not dimensions

[Stu C]

Sale prices (not MSRP) on popular capacity drives appear to be falling, with some great deals on 256MB and 512MB drives. Who is paying the MSRP prices listed in the table above? At least the MSPR price the 2GB drives is the best GB/£ ratio... they could have put a premium on this top model, which is common for USB drives and flash memory.

[Psycownage]

So when will these be available, I am running out of space on my 1tb 840 Evo and was considering just getting another but this is tempting.

[Kovoet]

This Damn good news

[Defiant]

oooohh! finally a mechanical drive killer.

Yeah, wallet killer as well. SSD's need to come down a country mile before they are even worth considering a mechanical drive killer.

[canopus72]

I'm glad Samsung have released a 2TB ssd. I need to replace my 2x4TB Hitachi HDD's. However, I am very disappointed to find that the 2TB ssd versions are selling for £636 and that the 1TB version is selling for £321. I wont be buying these 2TB+ ssd's unless prices are at a sensible level.

[johnniedoo]

At these dramatically reduced prices and quadrupling from the 500mb sizes the ssd becomes attractive . but, they are still premium priced. They need to come down to a better price point, still. novelty of size will cost for a while, but 2TB is a hefty chunk of money close to $1,000 here I think. not at commodity level yet. not when a 2T good mechanical hdd is 10% of that. I am waiting longer. I have the 128/256 and love the speed and do what most others have done with the 'D" drives or big LAN ethernet storage. soon, I hope , even these SSD prices will become more 'reasonable'

[gwp]

These 2TB Pro drives seem to have half the write endurance reliability of the 1TB drives. 300TB writes for both 1TB and 2TB sizes. If I wanted 2TB space, I'd buy 2 1TB drives for a total of 600TB writes.

[Cr@ig]

The range-topping drive comes equipped with 128 of Samsung's 32-layer 128Gb 3D V-NAND flash chips, presumably still from a 40nm process, and is covered by warranty for five years or 150 terabytes written - whichever expires first.

Am i getting maths wrong or is 128 x 128 = 16384 or 16gb?

[MrDLips]

Do want. I can see NAS drives shrinking in size very soon.

[whatif]

Yeah, that's one thing I've never understood. Why are there no 3.5" SSD's? I mean just cram a little extra in there and you get a cheap-ish 8GB SSD...

I agree
With so much extra space, why has no-one put out high capacity 3.5" drives.
Look at how much storage is on a M.2 drive, and if they can shrink that much onto these, how many chips would fit into a 3.5" case. I realise that heat can at times be a problem for the m.2's, so why not utilise the case as a heat sink with fins, maybe even put in a small fan. They could ecen have a PCI-e extension lead to connect it to the faster port (or at least a sata express to use the faster capabilities).
How would that be with a 20TB m.2 drive.
I am no drive tech, but at times it seems like they have these opportunities, but keep it back to sell the present stock.

[azrael-]

I agree
With so much extra space, why has no-one put out high capacity 3.5" drives.
Look at how much storage is on a M.2 drive, and if they can shrink that much onto these, how many chips would fit into a 3.5" case. I realise that heat can at times be a problem for the m.2's, so why not utilise the case as a heat sink with fins, maybe even put in a small fan. They could ecen have a PCI-e extension lead to connect it to the faster port (or at least a sata express to use the faster capabilities).
How would that be with a 20TB m.2 drive.
I am no drive tech, but at times it seems like they have these opportunities, but keep it back to sell the present stock.

And again, how would you pay for that drive? Which organ should you sell first? Liver, kidney?

Also, your idea with a cabled m.2 connection might not work. There's a reason you're supposed to plug the drive directly into a slot on the motherboard. To use PCIe over distance you would probably have to convert the signal into using Thunderbolt or something similar. That would not only add complexity but also price. But hey, you've already sold some body parts to get that 20TB drive. Just sell some more...