Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

    • falkerie71English
      43·
      9 months ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I remember that SSDs lifespan mainly depends on how much you overwrite the drive. For 128TB, it should take you a very long time to overwrite the entire drive, let alone couple hundred or thousand times to kill the drive. I know that bit rot also happens on SSDs, but that applies to HDDs as well, and good drive maintenance practices should alleviate the issue. Though for archival purposes/cold storage, tape drives are probably better.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        9 months ago

        The lifespan of your data isn’t nearly as long as the lifespan of the cells storing your data. Due to leakage of of power from the cells, and the more and more dense these cells are being packed (leading to smaller differences between what voltage maps to what binary value), SSDs have issues with bitrot. With a disk this size you would need to have data regularly checked and refreshed (rewritten) to ensure the data being stored was still correct and not corrupted.

        • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          9 months ago

          All storage has issues with bit rot. There haven’t been any studies to show that SSD is disproportionately affected.

            • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              There’s a caveat there. We’ve had some new tech in SSDs come out very recently, new enough not to be in those charts will still have to see.

            • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
              7·
              9 months ago

              When bits of data on a storage medium goes bad for seemingly no reason. If you’ve ever had a library of files and all of a sudden there’s a file that won’t open even though you haven’t touched it.

      • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        If they are loading the drive up with media for archival purposes how much overwriting are they going to be doing, anyways? Theoretically the drive should last a very long time for that purpose.

        • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          9 months ago

          Right, but if the point isn’t for the drive to be actively used, and instead just hold data for archiving, then there’s little reason to spend more money to get an SDD for that purpose when an HDD will hold that data just as well and for much cheaper.

          The benefits of SSD over HDD are almost entirely in performance, so if SSD can develop further to provide a tangible benefit over HDD for long term storage, and do it for cheaper, then we can fully move away from it. But I don’t think we’re quite there yet.

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        SSD lifespan is expressed in terabytes written (TBW), wherein yeah they can sustain so many writes to the flash chips before they can’t anymore.

      • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Really depends on the content, type of use, architecture, and the file system. You’re not wrong, some situations would take centuries to wear this guy out.

    • ANIMATEK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      9 months ago

      It’s not for you. It’s for enterprises, but I can drive down the prices of shit you would use. No noise, better performance, less energy; it’s a win-win.

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      HDDs typically don’t last as long as SSDs due to their mechanics failing. Data is there but it just won’t spin. I’ve yet to have an SSD actually fail. Every HDD I’ve ever owned, save one, has.