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So where's my 1TB solid state disk to replace the 256GB one I've been using in my laptop for 3 years now? It seems as though all innovation in storage stopped

So where's my 1TB solid state disk to replace the 256GB one I've been using in my laptop for 3 years now? It seems as though all innovation in storage stopped in 2009, and we've been coasting ever since. And don't even mention there's still no 4TB hard disks. My blu-ray rip collection isn't getting any smaller and our storage systems aren't getting better anywhere near fast enough.

1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago
Drive speeds have increase, capacity is slowly rising. Why compete on capacity when hdds still dominate it. But yes, this industry is still slow in it's evolution.
wmf 14y ago
There are 1TB SSDs, but not many. I guess few people want to spend $1,000 on a single SSD. Seagate has a 4TB disk; they were probably about to release it when the floods hit so I guess they decided to wait.
Leynos 14y ago
They're here: http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2-5-Inch-Performance-OCT1-25SAT3-1T/dp/B006L7JM64 http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2-5-Inch-Performance-OC... AFAICT, the OCZ Octane is the only 1TB 2.5" drive on the market, but I suspect you'll start to see more of these later this year (at slightly more sensible prices, one would hope).
- wtallis 14y ago
  http://www.anandtech.com/show/6038/owc-releases-960gb-mercury-electra-max-3g-ssd http://www.anandtech.com/show/6038/owc-releases-960gb-mercur... $1270 for a drive that is essentially a RAID-0 of two 512GB SSDs, packaged in a single 2.5" drive. OCZ also has the Colossus drives that offer 1TB as a RAID-0.
wtallis 14y ago
You don't need a solid-state drive for your movies. That's just wasteful. Mechanical hard drives are fine for data that will only be read, and only sequentially. Plus, they're still 10x cheaper, even given the currently inflated hard drive prices and record low SSD prices. There simply isn't a market for a 1TB consumer SSD. What you're really looking for is a hybrid drive with 64+ GB of Flash. EDIT: Also, at the end of 2009, TRIM support was just hitting the market, and SandForce-based drives were just being announced. Since then, TRIM has become universal, as has 6Gbps SATA support, and most controllers have been through at least one other iteration. SSD caching has also hit the market in a variety of forms.
- wavephorm 14y ago
  I seriously need a 1TB SSD (which either don't exist or are still way too expensive) for my laptop because I am constantly moving files off my local system and onto my file server which could also seriously use some 4TB drives, which also don't exist. I am running out of space on each of my systems faster than I ever remember.
  - wtallis 14y ago
    If the stuff you're moving around is going over a network, then you obviously don't need SSD performance for it, since your laptop doesn't have a NIC capable of more than 1Gbps. If you can't fit two drives in your laptop, then you are exactly the kind of user that hybrid drives are targeted at.
    - wavephorm 14y ago
      I'm moving stuff to network drives all the time because the SDD drive capacity of my laptop is too small. Even after 3 years there still isn't anything on the market that is an acceptably priced replacement. Like I said, where is my $300 1TB SDD that should have been on the market by now? 3 years is a really long time for an entire industry to be totally stagnant. It's somewhat similar to how Intel has been sitting on their asses for the past few years ignoring the entire mobile computing revolution.

1qaz2wsx3edc 14y ago

Drive speeds have increase, capacity is slowly rising. Why compete on capacity when hdds still dominate it. But yes, this industry is still slow in it's evolution.

wmf 14y ago

There are 1TB SSDs, but not many. I guess few people want to spend $1,000 on a single SSD. Seagate has a 4TB disk; they were probably about to release it when the floods hit so I guess they decided to wait.

Leynos 14y ago

They're here: http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2-5-Inch-Performance-OCT1-25SAT3-1T/dp/B006L7JM64 http://www.amazon.com/OCZ-Technology-2-5-Inch-Performance-OC... AFAICT, the OCZ Octane is the only 1TB 2.5" drive on the market, but I suspect you'll start to see more of these later this year (at slightly more sensible prices, one would hope).

wtallis 14y ago
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6038/owc-releases-960gb-mercury-electra-max-3g-ssd http://www.anandtech.com/show/6038/owc-releases-960gb-mercur... $1270 for a drive that is essentially a RAID-0 of two 512GB SSDs, packaged in a single 2.5" drive. OCZ also has the Colossus drives that offer 1TB as a RAID-0.

wtallis 14y ago

You don't need a solid-state drive for your movies. That's just wasteful. Mechanical hard drives are fine for data that will only be read, and only sequentially. Plus, they're still 10x cheaper, even given the currently inflated hard drive prices and record low SSD prices. There simply isn't a market for a 1TB consumer SSD. What you're really looking for is a hybrid drive with 64+ GB of Flash. EDIT: Also, at the end of 2009, TRIM support was just hitting the market, and SandForce-based drives were just being announced. Since then, TRIM has become universal, as has 6Gbps SATA support, and most controllers have been through at least one other iteration. SSD caching has also hit the market in a variety of forms.

wavephorm 14y ago
I seriously need a 1TB SSD (which either don't exist or are still way too expensive) for my laptop because I am constantly moving files off my local system and onto my file server which could also seriously use some 4TB drives, which also don't exist. I am running out of space on each of my systems faster than I ever remember.
- wtallis 14y ago
  If the stuff you're moving around is going over a network, then you obviously don't need SSD performance for it, since your laptop doesn't have a NIC capable of more than 1Gbps. If you can't fit two drives in your laptop, then you are exactly the kind of user that hybrid drives are targeted at.
  - wavephorm 14y ago
    I'm moving stuff to network drives all the time because the SDD drive capacity of my laptop is too small. Even after 3 years there still isn't anything on the market that is an acceptably priced replacement. Like I said, where is my $300 1TB SDD that should have been on the market by now? 3 years is a really long time for an entire industry to be totally stagnant. It's somewhat similar to how Intel has been sitting on their asses for the past few years ignoring the entire mobile computing revolution.