SanDisk Goes Big, Launches Industry's First 4TB SAS SSD

[KE4EST]

SanDisk on Wednesday unveiled the Optimus MAX, a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) and supposedly the first of its kind to offer a whopping 4TB of capacity. The selling point to enterprise customers is that the Optimus MAX achieves a capacity point that outpaces today's highest-capacity 2.5-inch 10K and 15K RPM SAS mechanical hard drives, thereby making it a trule replacement for legacy mission-critical data center SAS HDDs........

http://www.maximumpc.com/sandisk_goes_big_launches_industrys_first_4tb_sas_solid_state_drive_2014

 

[John Kotches]

Unless it's priced comparably (per GB stored) it won't get tons of traction in the Enterprise space. As it stands, SSD is used very sparingly due to the cost / GB stored. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be but there's still a significant disparity in price / GB.

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Enterprise SAS (1.2TB/10K/2.5") is about $1000 give or take. Somewhere between 3500/4500 is the target price to hit to make this mainstream. Some premium for the improved performance is expected but not tons.

Although when could also way cooling costs as well, assuming the SSD generates less heat.

 

[Neutron]

Guarantee it will be at least a a year or two before this is cost effective for most businesses.

 

[John Kotches]

Guarantee it will be at least a a year or two before this is cost effective for most businesses.

Tripling storage density in a given footprint, plus lowering power and cooling requirements might make this more attractive sooner than that. Buying the drives is a capital expenditure, and power/cooling are operational expenditures. So it might well be cost effective pretty quickly.

 

[KE4EST]

Exactly what I was thinking, if it runs cooler and consumes significant less power it will be a winner, even if GB per $$ is higher. It will cost less in the long run to operate, making it very attractive.

 

[John Kotches]

Exactly what I was thinking, if it runs cooler and consumes significant less power it will be a winner, even if GB per $$ is higher. It will cost less in the long run to operate, making it very attractive.

Maybe yes, maybe no. It depends on the terms/conditions on the space. At the CoLo facility we use, we pay per square foot + per Amp of power capacity. It doesn't cost us less if we use less power. Transitioning to one of our owned data centers, then power/cooling costs re-enter into the equation.

Still, the capacity per U of rack space would be ginormous. Quite cool.