So this is something that's always bothered me.
It seems like everyone else gets high density, high capacity storage
whether it's USB thumb drives that have been available in capacities as big as you know
256 gigs Fairly cheaply for years or even up to a terabyte if you want to spring from of those Kingston ones
phones are all the way up to 128 gigs
Micro SD cards, I think are available in like 256 gig at this point, M SATA SSDs
I mean, we're talking full-blown SSDs are available in up to one terabyte capacities
So why is it that when it comes to two and a half inch?
SSDs for your full-size laptop or your desktop
We've been stuck at the same damn 1 terabyte capacity for so long with Samsung only recently releasing a 2 terabyte SSD
so in today's video
we're going to be introducing two things number one is the largest SSD that I have ever had my hands on this is a
3.84 Terabyte SSD
and
Number 2 is a new format inspired by this thing that we're calling holy, sh**
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So I think the appropriate way to start something like this when you got like something really cool and interesting and different is
With one of our classic unboxing, so let's go ahead and rip this baby open and find out. What exactly a
3.84 Terabyte SSD
looks like
woah
The answer is that aside from the horrendous box with the 3-Year warranty policy?
thing in it
Clearly designed for people who don't care about the retail packaging
Exactly the same as any other ssd. I mean, okay sure you've got the
3.84 Terabyte capacity Written on there. There's probably some other specs like
There's your power consumption, so it consumes about 4.1
Watts of power when it's being written to it's rated at
540 megabytes per second read 480 megabytes per second write and can handle ninety nine thousand IOPS when it comes to
random
4k at a queue depth of 32, so that's pretty respectable, but only about
18,000 IOPS and again that's 4k Random and a queue depth of 32 when it comes to writes meaning that this is
Definitely a reads optimize drive in terms of the form factor if you check it out
It's got a standard SATA Power Standards SATA Data. Yes
My friends everything that's interesting about this drive pretty much is
Under the hood, so what we open it up, I?
Don't know if I'll ever stop appreciating the irony of these kits being called iFixit when they let me use one
Because I never use them to fix anything and usually breaking stuff
Whatever warranties are for Chumps anyway, and if if I didn't open it up
How would I show you where all the magic blue smoke gets gets held while the drive is operating?
alright, so first thing you're going to notice a bunch of flash chips actually not that many in the context of how large the drive
Is each one of these is about 480 gigabytes
Of capacity wrap your freaking brain around that and the way they achieve that is in a couple of ways first of all they are
TLC flash which means that they can store three bits per cell that gives better capacity and lower cost per
capacity although
You do trade off some write endurance as well as write
Performance and then the other one the big one is the fact that they are using
Samsung's 3d V-NAND with 32 layers a flash memory stacked
Instead of just relying on moore's law to continue to spread out all of those cells
so that is what has enabled them to deliver this puppy both at a reasonable cost and
In a reasonable form factor, but of course there's more technology on board as well
So you're going to find a tantalum capacitor on here that's going to allow the cache
To flush to the nand chips in the event of a sudden power loss as well as well
You won't be able to see it, but inside Samsung's proprietary
Controller you'll find some EcC correction technology as well as we're leveling trim and all that good stuff
That allows the drive to perform as well as it does and this is cool in
spite of the fact that it uses TLC flash this drive is rated at a two million hour mean time between failure and
rated at
5,600 Terabytes of Total Data Written and Within its sort of useful
Lifespan so to put that in perspective that would be writing the entire capacity of this drive 3.84
Terabytes per day for four years every day before you would use up
What samsung rates it at?
But enough about that let's go ahead and plug it into a bench and well if nothing else find out if it still works
Basically what I'm doing right? Now is I'm demonstrating exactly how to not
Benchmark an SSD and I'm going to copy a file from
My SSD on to a RAMDisk so you can see it's actually
Not going that fast and the reason for that is that this SSD is not
designed for large Contiguous file Transfers
It is designed rather for something more like the application that we are going to be using it for which is
multiple users hitting it for something like streaming video all at the same time so these SSDs are going to act as a
Read cache for our video editors to edit video files off of so they're going to be scrubbing back and Forth through video files
They're going to be asking it for this clip and then that clip and then you know moving through the timeline
Adding things removing things and that is the kind of workload that something like this is great for
Where we will be writing video clips to it that will actually be reading them back
Many times for every time that we write to them all right Linus so a video about a drive
The cool things about which you can't really demonstrate
Thumbs actually hold on no there are some things I can demonstrate and one of them is
The sheer Data density of this so just for comparison
This is intel 750 series NVMe SSD. This is a 1.2
Terabyte Drive and Unlike that drive
What samsung has managed to do here is within that 7 millimeter form Factor
So it'll fit in pretty much any laptop or certainly any desktop
They have delivered
3.84 terabytes, and that's pretty impressive, but you know
Micro SD cards right like they're huge no
No, this is where it gets really cool, so this is as good as it gets for a hard drive these days
This is almost as good as it gets for even three-and-a-half inch hard drives now, so to put it in perspective
This is about half the capacity of this guy right here
very cool
But not actually the coolest thing about it the coolest thing about this puppy is the cost per gigabyte
And you guys are like oh, yeah
I knew he was coming to this eventually how much does it cost so this guy right here is going to set you back about
$2,200 U.S. Dollars too much most of you are probably going to go
Excuse me. You're going to tell me this is a value in terms of cost per gigabyte
yeah, actually because While I
Am not here to tell you guys that you should all run out and buy one of these today
So you can keep all your steam games on one ssd
Yay, because most games loading times are not even any faster on Faster storage
No, no where the cost per gigabyte benefit comes in is in the sheer density of it like in a data center application
Let's say Netflix for example wants to roll out
You know racks on racks on racks of new Servers?
With you know all the latest hey say for example cool movies that you and all your friends want to watch well
Rather than just the cost of this guy to worry about is only about 55 cents per gig which is
Pretty good, especially given like a few years ago
We were paying over a dollar there's more to worry about than just this cost
There's the cost of the drive cage
it sits in the cost of the SATA controller that controls that cage the cost of the CPU that runs that system the cost of
The actual real estate inside a data center that that server has to sit inside
so if you can double the amount of storage that again someone like a video streaming service can have per
drive sled
You are going to have a whole lot of folks saying shut up and take my money and that is the most impressive thing about
This puppy, but what's the application to you?
You might ask well right now not a whole lot like I said
I'm not recommending that you run out and buy one of these although if you are a baller then
You could certainly do a lot worse
No, the applicability to you is that bleeding edge hardware like this always
starts in the Enterprise space and within whether it's 2 years or 10 years
Eventually makes its way down to the consumer level so the fact that it's finally started
We finally have SSDs that not only even on a density
Level but also just on a sheer capacity level are catching up to hard drives means that that can't be that far away
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