First SSD with 1PB ‘usable capacity’ could come in 2023
In an exclusive email exchange with TechRadar Pro , CEO and founder of Nimbus Data Thomas Izakovich revealed that solid state drives with capacities of up to 400TB are on the horizon. "We can do 200TB in 2021 and likely 400TB by 2023," he said, in reference to the unformatted storage capacity of the company's yet-to-be-announced SSDs. This is a symbolically significant milestone, because a prospective SSD with a native capacity of 400TB equals 1PB in tape capacity. Tape vendors usually deliver a native/compressed number for tape storage . The largest tape size, LTO-8, currently tops 12TB native and 30TB compressed, while LTO-9 (expected to land later this year) is set to double the capacity to 24TB (60TB compressed). We've built a list of the best portable SSDs out there Check out our list of the best cloud storage services around Here's our choice of the best rugged hard drives on the market In other words, you would need at least 17 of these tapes t...