Samsung ships world's highest capacity SSD, with 16TB of storage

PanARMENIAN.Net - Samsung has started shipping the 16TB (15.36TB) SSD it showed off at the Flash Memory Summit in California last year, Engadget reports.

The company says the positively tiny, 2.5-inch drive has the largest capacity among all the SSDs in the world. It still didn't mention how much one would cost you most likely because it's marketing the SSD as an enterprise product for obvious reasons. It boasts in its announcement post that since the product's a 2.5-inch SSD, businesses can fit more drives in their server racks than if they use 3.5-inch drives.

The Korean manufacturer was able to cram such a huge capacity inside a teensy package by stacking 512 pieces of its 256Gb vertical NAND memory chips, which have twice the capacity of the NAND chips other companies use. It says users will be able to write 15.36TB worth of data on the drive every day without fail, and that the SSD comes with a tool that can protect data and restore software in case of blackouts.