SSD up to 8 TB from next year
The speed performance of the SSD are still significantly higher than those of mechanical hard drives, but the same cannot be said of the capacity. In 2016, we will see large capacities for these devices.
The advent of SSDs was a real turning point in the PC industry, with the ability to significantly increase performance than using a traditional mechanical hard drive.
SSDs have historically always suffered from a limit in comparison with hard disk, tied to their ability to store data. The capacities of SSDs, complicit in this also the higher cost, were never likely to match those of the hard disk. From this choice to equip the desktop of a SSD for the operating system and data access to the applicant, alongside a high-capacity hard drive to store other data.
SanDisk is willing to offer SSD solutions that can match the capacity of the hard drive mechanics. This result, the company has already come with the models Optimus MAX 4TB capacity, announced by that time but only for this year will be adopted by various OEMs worldwide. Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of the company, pointed out during a conference call as the success of the models Optimus MAX is pushing cuts to higher dimensions.
From this the development of new models of the family Optimus MAX constructed with production technology in 15 nanometers, combining SAS interface from 12 GB/s and able to reach a capacity of up to 8 Tbytes per unit. These proposals will be on sale only from the end of 2016 but confirm that the direction of the market is that of a progressive approach in terms of cost per GB of SSD and hard disk. This result presumably arrive in 2017 but already now the gap between these two technologies tends to be much more content than it was in the past.
Examples of this type will initially be offered to enterprise customers, given the cost that we do not think will be contained and accessible to most consumers, but as always happens in these cases. It is conceivable a rapid fall in price lists so as to make them accessible to end users. For these objectives will need to continue with the evolution of technology in the SSD: from increasingly sophisticated production technologies, such as 15 nanometers, it will also pass the 3D stacking of NAND chips that will reduce the cost per Gbyte increasing overall performance.
