Can you imagine being able to store up to 10.600 movies on DVD taking advantage of the high data transfer speed offered on an SSD disk? Well now this is possible because Viking Technologies has launched a new Solid State Drive or SSD with 3,5-inch form factor and 50 TB capacity.
Although there is already another SSD with a capacity even higher than this, such as the incredible 60TB drive announced by Seagate last summer, the truth is that that one has not yet gone on sale, while Viking ensures that your SSD is already available to be shipped, despite which the price is nowhere to be found, Suspicious?
50 TB that goes a long way
Viking's new UHC-Silo SSD is a 3,5-inch storage unit with a SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface similar to the Seagate SSD we were talking about. And like that one, there is also primarily intended for business and data center use, from which it follows that its price will be almost "insulting" for the average user. Taking into account that a 1 TB SSD has an average cost of about $ 300, because more or less multiplies by fifty and there you have it, about $ 15.000?
We insist that the price of this Viking 50TB SSD has not yet been revealed despite the fact that the company has confirmed that these drives are already available to ship from today.
As you can imagine, huge storage SSDs are not within the reach of the regular user; imagine that a Samsung SSD of 3,5 ″ and 250GB of capacity has a price of € 89,95 On Amazon, and that is on sale. However, it is one more example that the future of storage is based on large-capacity SSDs that, little by little (very little by little) are reducing their price.
Viking's Silo series of SSD drives (of which there is also a 25TB model), offer a high energy efficiency; in suspension, its consumption is less than 10W, while in active it is 16W. This factor is used by the company to promote its product stating that "data centers (...) can realize cost savings in energy, space and cooling of up to 80% per terabyte."
The 50TB model offers a capacity that would allow store around 10.600 DVDs, half of what we could keep in the 100 ALSO SSD that Samsung says it will have available in 2020.