Going to be 10TB soon - from Hot Hardware:
Intel’s Partnership With Micron To Soon Birth 10TB SSDs For Enterprise Market
Everyone who builds a PC from the ground up faces several decisions along the way, one of which relates to storage—do you go with a fast solid state drive, or stretch your dollar-per-gigabyte with a capacious hard drive? In the end, most of us settle on a modestly sized SSD for the OS and a beefy HDD for storage chores, but what if you could have the best of both worlds? The industry is heading in that direction.
Intel and Micron have been tag-teaming various storage and memory technologies, like 3D XPoint (pronounced "cross point") memory, and word on the web is that the fruits of that partnership is a 10-terebyte SSD that's right around the corner—yes folks, 10 freaking terabytes. Talk about reaching parity with HDDs (in terms of capacity, no pun intended).
The largest SSD in Intel's stable at the moment is 4TB, which itself is pretty large. But the bump to 10TB is more than twice as capacious, a feat that's made possible by advancements in Micron's 3D NAND flash memory.
No word yet on pricing and availability but this is a very big deal. I have two systems that boot off an SSD and it takes about fifteen seconds. Application loading is lightning fast as well.
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