- Fricking ridiculous...
Wait, hold on a second, 13.9 terabytes.
This QX extra large SSD has a whopping
15.3
terabytes
of capacity.
That's right my friends.
Over 15 terabytes on a single SSD.
This thing probably has more storage in it
than your entire household.
What would you even do with this...
Get off,
This much Solid State storage
and how much would you pay for it?
I legit want to know.
Can you guys leave a comment below?
What would you do with this?
How much would you pay?
As for what we would do with it.
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Unlike the 100 terabyte ExaDrive from Nimbus Data
that we checked out recently,
this drive from Team Group fits in a standard,
two and a half inch bay,
hasn't been mercilessly disassembled yet,
and is aimed at consumers to put in a normal gaming rig,
like the one behind me right there.
Crazy, right?
It's crazy to think about
like on these two, two and a half inch drive sleds,
but boom.
30 terabytes of Solid State towards,
you know, there was a trend in SSDs
where at first they were made of like really thick housing,
so they'd feel like quality.
And then over time, you know, the PC industry,
they cheaped out and cheaped out
until they were basically made of aluminum foil
on the internals.
But this one's heavy.
You notice that?
It's heavy. There's a lot of NAND chips in there.
And I mean, compared to a hard drive,
it weighs practically nothing.
Like, look at that.
This is 12 up to 20 terabytes.
15 terabytes.
I mean, no wonder the Data Center loves SSD now.
It's not cheap, but dense for sure.
Okay. Well, let's pop that puppy on there.
Where'd the cable go?
Oh.
Wow, it's like you went out of your way
to get the most ass-looking SATA cable.
Thank you for that.
Thanks for nothing.
Let's go ahead and fire it up ladies and gentlemen.
There it is. There's our C drive 446 gigabytes, ew.
And then we got the big O drive.
That's a lot of terabytes.
Freaking ridic...
Wait, hold on a second.
13.9 terabytes.
What happened to my 15.3,
a rip off?
I believe this is what's known as a bra moment.
Kids, can you verify please as this a bra moment?
Okay, it's not.
Because Team Group uses standard gigabytes
for the specifications,
where one gigabyte is 1000 megabytes,
which is 1000 kilobytes, et cetera.
But Microsoft likes to think different, so to speak,
and they use tebibytes and gibibytes instead.
So what that means is that to windows one gigabyte is
1024 megabytes, which is 1024 kilobytes.
Because of this discrepancy,
Windows only sees the drive as being about 91%
of its actual capacity.
I wish that this problem would just go away,
but for that to happen,
we'd have to get all the software engineers
to agree with all the hardware engineers,
and they both have to agree with all the marketing people,
which I think we all know is never gonna happen.
This puppy is rated at 560 megabytes per second reads
and up to 480 megabytes per second writes.
Not real impressive by today's standards
where you'll find drives that are like,
three, four, five, six gigabytes, a second reads and writes.
Of course, sequential reads and writes
are not the be all and end all of drive performance anyway.
Okay.
So we won't be doing any sequential driving speed porn
with this particular drive.
I mean, it definitely meets the rate.
It's back 550 megabytes a second reads, but that's okay,
because we've actually got that coming with an early look at
Kioxia's next gen U.3 enterprise drive.
So, get subscribed so you don't miss that one.
This, this is more about,
this is more of a capacity play.
But why is it so slow?
This is a brand new drive.
Well, there's a couple of reasons.
First of all, it uses the SEDA interface which is,
getting on in age and not being revised anymore
for higher speeds
because it's been mostly replaced by PCI Express.
Number two, is that it uses the AHCI protocol,
which really was designed for magnetic drives, not for SSDs.
That's why all those new PCI Express drives,
use NVMe instead.
But, it's got other problems.
Even if it hooked up to a faster interface,
it uses QLC NAND, which sacrifices some of its durability
and its performance for the sake of cramming in
more capacity.
So this Sabrent Q NVMe PCIe M.2 is another perfect example
of a QLC product.
It's an eight terabyte drive,
but of course gives up some performance,
particularly on writes.
Still it's impressive though.
Cramming 15 freaking terabytes of data
into this tiny enclosure with no moving parts.
And there's plenty of performance
for a lot of things you might want to do.
So let's have a look at some of the stuff that
our probation writer copied onto the drive.
See if we can bring it to its knees.
Hello.
Did it lock up again?
Is this thing just like a piece of (beep).
Obviously for our viewers, a big one would be games.
You guys might've noticed that,
we only managed to fill up like,
one and a half terabytes of this thing.
To put this in context,
this drive can fit 61 copies of CoD Warzone on it.
And when it comes to loading times,
let's use Grand Theft Auto V as our example.
It's the game with notoriously long loading times.
Fire up some story mode here.
And in the meantime,
I'll give you some more context for how huge this thing is.
307 Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray movies,
nearly 3.1 million songs
if we assume the average stream quality is an MP3 file
that's roughly five megabytes.
Not bad, right?
Not bad.
Now, in the future,
game loading time performance
could be affected by technologies like direct storage.
(background noise drowns out other sounds)
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
(Linus laughs)
In the future you could run into bottlenecks
with games that use direct storage,
which is going to allow
much, much faster level loading times,
kind of like you see in the PlayStation 5,
and the Xbox Series.
But for now, with classically designed games,
I wouldn't expect any appreciable performance difference
between this and just about anything else.
Man, this poor Titan is really showing its age here.
Smells.
This is one of our old editing stations.
It freezes if you move it around too much.
- [Game Character] Sit tight, I'll have--
- Oh, enough of that though.
Sorry new writer,
we don't have time to look at your memes
and smash mouth collection.
Somebody once told me that it's just
not worth our audience's time.
Time to disassemble this thing.
So, I think you just pop off those four screws
and crack it open, right?
Wait, how much does this thing cost?
Should I be worried about breaking it?
No, don't tell me, don't spoil it.
So, a screw under here.
Hold on.
Hey, there it is.
Oh, all right.
That's a pretty normal looking drive.
We got eight NAND flash chips here.
We've got two DRAM chips mounted here.
What's this?
Have we Googled this part number yet?
I wanna know how much RAM this freaking thing has,
'cause theoretically it should have like
eight to 16 gigs of R...
There's no way.
Like there's no way they did that.
But
this is 2666 megahertz
DDR4.
And I believe these are actually 16 gigabit dies.
So that would mean that there's at least four gigs of RAM.
And I've only looked at one side of the PCV.
What are these Phison chips here?
Oh my God, my eyes are going,
"need my reading glasses".
Holy (beep).
This thing actually has
eight gigs of RAM.
There's two more (mumbles) on the other side.
This thing is fricking nuts.
Are these power loss capacitors over here?
Does this thing have power loss protection?
Oh my God, I guess you'd need so many of them
because in order to flush eight gigabytes of data,
this thing would have to save power
for a fricking long time.
Holy crap balls.
So everyone of these NAND packages here is a terabyte, okay?
It's got eight gigabytes of RAM
and is using a Phison
PS3112.
So like, yeah, fine.
That is some sweet engineering.
To be clear,
Team Group does not advertise
any kind of power loss protection.
I am guessing that that's what these puppies are for.
One thing to note, however,
is that the building materials for this particular drive
can apparently change,
from unit to unit
because this is a non-standard skew
and is actually built to order.
Not sure if that's a huge problem since this,
isn't the sort of thing that your average consumer can buy
given that it cost...
Oh my God, we got to the part of the script
where I find out how much it costs.
$4,000
and,
making matters more challenging,
is the fact that you could actually buy two,
of these eight terabyte, PCI Express drives
and enough hoodies to wear a new one every day of the week
from lttstore.com
for significantly less money than one of these.
Not to mention that it would be way faster.
I could see it being useful for maybe video editors
or a high capacity storage server
that uses two and a half inch base.
But funny thing is it's not super great
for large amounts of sustained writes,
since it's write endurance says, "only 2,560 terabytes."
Now that's still a lot.
It's actually comparable
to a four terabyte, Samsung 860 EVO,
but it's relatively low for a 16 terabyte.
Excuse me, 15.3 terabyte drive,
since you could only actually wipe
and refill this thing 167 times.
That doesn't feel like a lot of times for $4,000.
Maybe you just want long-term storage
with higher reliability than a hard drive
and you have money to burn.
Okay. So it doesn't matter.
The drive has its uses,
but it's not an economy or budget option.
And it also doesn't really make sense
if you're an enthusiast,
since you'd be better served with a smaller,
higher performance drive
and then maybe some kind of magnetic storage
with an SSD cache on it or something.
But if you absolutely need 15 terabytes
in a two and a half inch data enclosure,
then I guess this is there for you.
For you and only you.
Staying cool though, isn't it?
So good job Team Group for making this weird thing,
because you could,
even though you must've known
almost nobody would actually buy it.
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If you guys enjoyed this video,
you might also enjoy the video
where we checked out the Nimbus Data 100 terabyte drive.
That one, architecturally very different,
but it was designed for a very different use.