Got a high bandwidth video camera that fills a piddly 4TB SSD in too short of a time? How about a 13TB SSD!
Fixstars certainly gets cool points for launching such a high capacity SSD, but there are a few things to consider here. These are not meant to be written in a random fashion and are primarily geared towards media creation (8k RAW video). Filling at saturated SATA bandwidth, these will take about 7 hours to fill, and just as long to empty onto that crazy high end editing machine. But hey, if you can afford 13TB of flash (likely ~$13,000) just to record your video content, then your desktop should be even beefier.
The take home point here is that this is not a consumer device, and it would not work out well even for pro gamers with money to burn. The random write performance is likely poor enough that it could not handle a Steam download over a high end broadband link.
Full press blast after the break.
Fixstars Launches SSD-13000M, the World’s Largest 13TB SSD for Applications such as Object Storage and Streaming Content Distribution
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
January 13, 2016 – Irvine, CA – Fixstars Corporation (HQ: Tokyo, CEO: Satoshi Miki, Hereafter: Fixstars) has officially launched two new products: the 10TB Fixstars SSD-10000M, and the Fixstars SSD-13000M, which stands as the world’s largest SSD*1 (13TB*2 of capacity). Starting January 13th, 2016, Fixstars will be accepting orders which are expected to ship to US customers late February.
The SSD-13000M and SSD-10000M are equipped with Fixstars proprietary SSD controller, which enables the fast, sustainable I/O performance (read speeds of up to 540 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s) throughout the lifetime of the SSD. The combination of such high performance and enterprise-grade reliability is proven to be highly sought after in applications such as object storage, streaming content distribution, CG/VFX productions, 4K/8K video processing and various other use cases in which steady sequential access is critical.
Satoshi Miki, CEO of Fixstars Corporation, gave the following comments,
“Continuing the development of the world’s highest capacity SSD product line, we are pleased to take capacity one step further and present the SSD-13000M. The Fixstars SSD series has been highly regarded for their distinct reliability on steady read/write performance that lasts over time. Having met user expectations for higher capacities, Fixstars will continue to innovate and provide unique storage solutions to it’s customers in Japan and in the U.S.”
For more information, please visit http://www.fixstars.com/en/ssd/
*1 Based on the shipping models of 2.5 inch, 15mm SSDs as of January 12th, 2016
*2 1TB＝1,000,000,000,000 Bytes. The actual user space will be smaller.
*3 Based on the shipping models of 2.5 inch, 9.5mm SSDs as of May 7th, 2015
I’m tempted but 13TB just
I’m tempted but 13TB just doesn’t quite cut it these days.
I’d buy it just for bragging
I’d buy it just for bragging rights but there’s something about that number 13.
You afraid of numbers? Go
You afraid of numbers? Go pray to Santa Claus and get off tech forums… holy shit.
Nothing better to do than
Nothing better to do than hurl insults? I bet it gives you that all-powerful feeling hiding on the net. Pls try it in the real world.
No one in his/her right mind would buy this just for bragging rights – it has a very specific use case.
As for tech forum suitability, the above meaning went way over your head. That is what you should concern yourself with.
And they’re STILL selling 1TB
And they’re STILL selling 1TB ones for 1000$ on their site. How about NO. Especially NOW, when Mushkin’s going to sell a JBOD’ed 4TB for just 500$. Fixstars can go and suck it. yes they were the very first ones in the world to offer 3TB and 6TB SSDs, but those are priced at 1500$ and 3000$ respectively. Just NO.
How to make a sandwich with a
How to make a sandwich with a few SSDs. TDP?
We can speculate until the
We can speculate until the cows come home, but it clearly must be benchmarked to know for sure.
In talking with my peers in
In talking with my peers in the review community, they are extremely bad at any type of random workload. Purpose built for streams and thats about it.
I’d buy that for a dollar.
on
I’d buy that for a dollar.
on a side note, “anal bum lover” came up as words related to “i’d buy that for a dollar” per urban dictionary, makes sense.