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.