Micron now has a 11TB SSD

Did they post the write endurance dwpd for this drive?

You don't actually get as many reads as you want. Reads disturb the cells and you eventually have to rewrite them based on reads as well.

$0.70 a gig is really high. Even for cutting edge high density SSDs, I would expect to see around $0.50 a gig.

The lifetime of most hardware is under 10 years. I'd be pretty happy with an unconditional 5 year warranty.

That said, in five years a 10TB SSD should be around the price of a 1TB SSD now.

> Samsung does not support the specifications required for Bitlocker to offload the encryption

No, but you need to use Samsung Magician (or whatever they call it) to enable it.

I've heard rumors that Intel will release consumer Optane SSD with adequate capacity very soon.

Downvote may have been that your comment concerns itself with consumer SSDs, but the topic link is to a super-high end SSD for specific server applications.

And yeah, that's some terrible sexism and shouldn't be tolerated.

> What the fuck is up with this site Custom PC Guide and their "tradition" in "every article about Samsung SSD"?

my impression was that they were commenting on samsung's 'bizarrely sexist' (to use your expression) use of 'attractive women' to sell things like printers.

the so-called 'booth babe' phenomenon is (was?) a recognized trend of using attractive women for marketing. generally these women were contracted through modeling, marketing or similar agencies, and typically didn't have any understanding of the products they were representing. this is frustrating both from both a 'feminist', 'consumer/purchaser', and probably a variety of other perspectives.

Don, glad you made great effort reaching out to me. My assistant over at Local Success.org forwarded your message to my inbox and boy, it reminds me how much time we spent on discussing about this one particular article that always attracted millions of views back in the day. My time at CPG blog is limited now since I handed over the role to another member of the team but here's what happened.

The original articles were put together by a couple of editors and one of them inserted an image of a Samsung female rep standing at their SSD booth with no intetion other than it was used to illustrate the big marketing event that Samsung invested in to promote the new SSD series. As you know, Samsung is from Korea and if you have ever gone to any of the PC cons in Korea, Vietnam or South Asia in general you will find many of these models present for the participated brands. It's the norm there, similar to how a car show or a UFC/wreslting event in the U.S is. The difference is it is not viewed as sexism in our culture. These models are usually well-known singer and actor who got a side gig and do it for the fans, they don't wear bikinis or act indecency even it's a beach photo session like you saw. They represent an atractive, clean image for the brand which is a total opposite of what we often see here, where models sometimes don't even know the company they represent and just be there posing for the job with rated R outfit. At first when I read your messsage I thought it was another fedora troll comment since you're in the U.S and are more open minded than the East; but I think you are genuinely upset and I see your point. But don't stress on the difference view of another culture when it's not the same as your perspective.

When we saw the high view counts on that the Samsung SSD reviews, we scratched our head wondering why it's always more popular than https://www.custompcguide.net/the-differences-between-sandis... or https://www.custompcguide.net/the-best-and-fastest-mainstrea.... Though we know Samsung SSD is more sought after but if anything google analytic shows that the search volumes for other brands are just as equal. Only the Samsung SSD reviews are being shared more. It slowly dawns on us when many of the local customers casually mentioned how they found the article online and joked how they fall in love with the female rep in the photo before ending up buying a Samsung SSD and recommend another friend to check it out. Since then, we decided to just put a random image of samsung girl into an article to subliminally make fun of how many young readers these days seem to remember photo more than the actual information the article provides. We expected someday someone will discuss about it again but on the other end of spectrum and you did. Another day in the future, someone will probably send me a message about https://www.custompcguide.net/5-best-budget-ssds-crucial-mx3... making fun of Donald Trump too, maybe?

On another note, please don't be too serious about the small jokes in the review, they make the information stands out and people remember the whats and whys of the product better. I probably give a note to the current editors to work their translation better since a handful of posts are first written and published in another language.

Write once, read many times.

And WD Gold 12TB goes for about $520 / unit.

It used to be about 10X difference between HDD and SSD per TB pricing. Now the gap has widen quite a bit with NAND price going up.

Thanks - that person commented after, and I appreciate it. Right now I don't have the cash, but I wish I did. That SSD is big enough to store the CommonCrawl text-only archive of the web (compressed). http://commoncrawl.org/the-data/get-started/

It doesn't help that the flash manufacturers seem to be colluding on price and want to keep the cost of SSDs artificially high. Gotta make those margins! See recent DDR4 pricing issues for an example.

In the end it won't matter. 5 1/4" storage devices were always cheaper than their 3 1/2' counterparts, but a combination of factors, like how 7.2K, 10K and 15K RPM speeds were possible on a smaller platter, and seek times were faster due to shorter head travel, made the cost savings largely irrelevant.

The Quantum Bigfoot drive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot) was huge, storing way more than an equivalent 3 1/2" drive with the ridiculous amount of platter area, and cheap. The downside was it was relatively slow and noisy as all hell.

HDD technology won't go away overnight, but one day you'll wake up and chuckle about how things used to be. We had spinning rust in our computers! Hilarious!