WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
Western Digital introduced new storage solutions at FMS 2024, including a 128TB SSD for AI applications, 8TB SD cards, and a 16TB external SSD, enhancing options for consumers and enterprises.
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Western Digital (WD) unveiled several new storage solutions at the Future of Memory and Storage Conference (FMS 2024), focusing on high-capacity products for various sectors including data centers and consumer markets. The highlight is a 128TB enterprise SSD utilizing BiCS8 QLC NAND technology, designed to meet the growing data demands of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Additionally, WD introduced an 8TB SD card and a 16TB external SSD, aimed at consumers seeking high-capacity storage options. The 128TB SSD is expected to enhance performance for data-intensive applications, while the new SanDisk 8TB SDUC UHS-I card and 4TB microSD card cater to users of smartphones, drones, and cameras. WD also showcased a 32TB ePMR SMR HDD and a 64TB eSSD for large-scale data storage, along with a RapidFlex interposer for converting PCIe SSD signals to Ethernet. These innovations reflect WD's commitment to advancing storage technology and meeting the needs of both enterprise and consumer markets.
- WD announced a 128TB enterprise SSD, 8TB SD cards, and a 16TB external SSD at FMS 2024.
- The 128TB SSD is designed for AI and machine learning applications, utilizing BiCS8 QLC NAND technology.
- New high-capacity SD cards and external SSDs target consumer markets, enhancing storage options for mobile devices.
- WD also introduced a 32TB HDD and a 64TB eSSD for large-scale data storage solutions.
- The company aims to lead in storage technology advancements across various sectors.
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How many years before price/GB gets better too ?
or is it that some people mistakenly believe that bigger devices are more cost-effective?
this part of the release is interesting: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
In a 128Gb SSD? Welcome to BitRot city.
I’ll stick to SLC as long as I can, thanks.
The floor price for 2TB SSD is basically stuck on USD100.00 for reputable brands. Less reputable brands are significantly cheaper but the good ones are self-policing around the floor price.
People like Tom's Hardware say "oh its the NAND shortage" but thats bullshit. It's the last vestige of not-really-illegal collusive pricing behaviour by a bunch of highly profitable manufacturers.
Demand (price) is driving this. Cost has nothing to do with it. "it's the market" is true, because if somebody dropped the floor to USD80 or USD70 I am willing to bet they'd make a killing for a very short while until the others come on board but while they can make book on $100 they're not going lower.
the other SSD sources are very dodgy. There's a lot of risk in going for the super cheap brands right now, you only have to read the reviews to see they come up far more often in post-purchase failure and inevitably problems with replacement. Not to say the majors never fail, but nobody much complains about their RMA on the failure.
Pricing of 2.5" HDD are now predominantly driven by SMR or not SMR as far as I can see it. Shucking is no longer much use to anyone. I expect some of the shuckable drives to migrate slowly to SSD and not bother saying so except indirectly "shockproof" or somesuch. It would actually be better for them not to admit they used SSD, than have to break the de-facto price barriers here.
If you want 4TB or higher, you are paying a premium, its more than 2x the cost of 2TB. The unit price of a 1TB does seem a bit more malleable and the sub TB units are now cheap as .. chips. You burn PCI lines or USB ports to glue these into RAID structures. Nice if you have the slots. Highly reliable with all those discrete media units but you need loads of them to get back to the 5-10TB scale effective filestore size. DO NOT USE USB MEDIA IN RAID IF YOU CAN AFFORD NOT TO
(I don't think M.2 or SATA 2.5" FF has much to do with this)
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