100 TB in your pocket

The new SSD Drive from Nimbus, a 100TB monster storage fitting in your pocket. Credit: Nimbus

Just a month ago I was marvelling at the huge 30TB SSD (Solid State Drive) announced by Samsung as the largest SSD ever manufactured.

Well, that was a long time ago! Now Nimbus has announced a 100TB SSD storage with a capacity of 100TB in a forma factor that fits in my pocket.  It is over 3 times larger than the Samsung one and has a 85% less power consumption per TB.

They also claim that the total cost of ownership will be 42% lower (per TB) of existing data center grade SSD storage.

Saying that it is “just” a storage device is not correct. It has a multiprocessor architecture supporting fast access to data.

If you need to store 20,000 HD movies and 20 million songs than this Nimbus is for you.  Take into account that having all those songs stored is not a problem since you will be able to access 100,000 songs every second! And you shouldn’t worry on possible data loss. It has been engineered to sustain a single data loss over 285 years of operation.

The price has not been announced yet (although they claim the per TB operation cost will be 42% lower than current systems) but it will surely be in the 5 zeros range. Just wait ten more years and it will become affordable to most of us.

About Roberto Saracco

Roberto Saracco fell in love with technology and its implications long time ago. His background is in math and computer science. Until April 2017 he led the EIT Digital Italian Node and then was head of the Industrial Doctoral School of EIT Digital up to September 2018. Previously, up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America. He is a senior member of IEEE where he leads the New Initiative Committee and co-chairs the Digital Reality Initiative. He is a member of the IEEE in 2050 Ad Hoc Committee. He teaches a Master course on Technology Forecasting and Market impact at the University of Trento. He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 14 books.