[PatK]

Samsung Unveils The World's Largest Hard Drive, Boasting 16 TB In A 2.5-Inch Case
actual capacity clocks in at 15.36 TB? The secret is the company's new 256-GB NAND flash die and don't ask about the price, you can't afford it yet.

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/flash-storage/

[tr4shcr4ft]

i think the price will be just something between a Lada and a Dacia

[oWarchild]

Haha

It's very expensive today but it's also a glimpse into the future: one day we'll all have drives with this capacity and bigger on our computers

[levi.baker88]

Samsung already have a 2TB SSD (with a completely non-consumer price tag) and 1TB drives are dropping considerably in price, so it's probably closer than you think. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a 4TB SSD available by this time next year and the price of 1TB drives have halved.

[PatK]

I've heard that these SSD drives lose their information if left unpowered for long periods of time. One wonders if this NAND flash is any better? perhaps not the best archival solution.

[oWarchild]

Yeap, that's true, SSD's are not a good solution for data archival. Anandtech: The Truth About SSD Data Retention explains it.

Still, things are improving...

All in all, there is absolutely zero reason to worry about SSD data retention in typical client environment. Remember that the figures presented here are for a drive that has already passed its endurance rating, so for new drives the data retention is considerably higher, typically over ten years for MLC NAND based SSDs.

[DJ_Izumi]

Samsung Unveils The World's Largest Hard Drive, Boasting 16 TB In A 2.5-Inch Case
actual capacity clocks in at 15.36 TB? The secret is the company's new 256-GB NAND flash die and don't ask about the price, you can't afford it yet.

It's not 'Actual Capacity', it's a different unit of measurement. Ever notice how HDD Windows and some other operating systems don't use abreviations like MB, GB or TB, but instead use 'MiB, GiB, or TiB? That's cause the operating systems arn't using Megabytes, Gigabytes or Terabytes. They're using Mibibytes, Gibibytes and Tibibytes, they are slightly different and larger units of measurements. HDD manufacturers just like using the unit of measurement that makes their drives sound the largest. ...This is also why Americans think 100kph sounds a lot faster than 65mph.