Re:SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.
by vidarh on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:42PM
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In fact today the main problem with the 2.5" form factor is being limited to the performance of SATA controllers, not how much you can pack into the space.
There's little reason to pay a massive premium for huge SSDs if your controllers limits you to a small percentage of the potential capacity of the drive. So instead you get things like the PCIe cards with 4+ controllers that gets RAID'ed together by the drivers.
As the controller bandwidth catches up, I'm sure that'll change.
There's little reason to pay a massive premium for huge SSDs if your controllers limits you to a small percentage of the potential capacity of the drive. So instead you get things like the PCIe cards with 4+ controllers that gets RAID'ed together by the drivers.
As the controller bandwidth catches up, I'm sure that'll change.