Which is the World's Largest SSD and how big is it ?  The Fixstars 13TB !

 

Q) The biggest SSD ?

A) As of January 2016, the World's largest SSD has a capacity of 13 Terabytes and it is made by Fixstars, a company in Japan.


Q) What is the physical size of the SSD ?

A) It is all in a 2.5 inch enclosure, good enough to fit into laptops

Q) What are the transfer speeds ?

A) It uses a SATA-3 6Gbps interface, the sequential read speed is 580MBps and the sequential write speed is 520Mbps

Q) Power consumption ?

A) Less than 3W in idle, around 6W on load

Q) Where is it useful

A) Holding big data such as Streaming Content, Medical Imaging Data, uncompressed 4K and 8K video for processing, VFX & computer graphics etc.

Q) What is the next best in terms of capacity ?

A) The closest competitor in terms of capacity is 4.6TB


Q) Is it reliable

A) It has a couple of features to improve its reliability

• On-board Thermal control
• High durability mode increases that drives lifetime by 3 times but reduces the capacity to half

 

Q) What is the warranty ?

A) 3 years limited warranty

Q) What does it cost ?

A) Around 13,000 USD, thats a dollar per gigabyte


Q) Where to buy ?

A) Click here