These are for making raid systems with higher speed for graphing systems, possibly for high speed swap memory for frontier model cpu inference.
If it’s for raid system, I would be less reserved about QLC.
WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
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Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#22Anyone in the industry able to tell me where WD sits in the flash space?
I use WD for my HDDs pretty exclusively but had assumed their SSD offerings were mostly white label drives they slapped their name on, are they a real competitor in the space?
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#23I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.
https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/
OP did say "no room for SATA drives", those SSDs are SATA. That said ... I do have room for a couple of SATA drives :-)
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#24I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.
I'm using these (Samsung 970 QVO) as the data drive in a couple of workstations right now. Not the fastest SSD for a number of reasons, but still a lot faster than a mechanical drive.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089C3TZL9/
Oddly, these were ~$300 when I bought them at the end of 2023, but the price has now doubled.
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#25I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.
I'd like to find some good quality but slow nvmes, I dont need super high speed for media serving but getting a lot of storage (4x4tb/2x8tb ~) is much more expensive than hard drives. Itd be nice to have a silent home server
Good quality has a baseline level of speed which is pretty fast. There's not much you can cut at that point.
But cheap SSDs got down to 2x the price of hard drives last year. Even after prices stabilized, they're at 3x. Flash catching up relatively soon seems likely. Flash matching the current price of hard drives seems even more likely.
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#26Anyone in the industry able to tell me where WD sits in the flash space? I use WD for my HDDs pretty exclusively but had assumed their SSD offerings were mostly white label drives they slapped their name on, are they a real competitor in the space?
WD is the real deal, they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house.
They acquired Sandisk and HGST so there's a lot of expertise under their roof.
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to find some good quality but slow nvmes, I dont need super high speed for media serving but getting a lot of storage (4x4tb/2x8tb ~) is much more expensive than hard drives. Itd be nice to have a silent home server
Good quality has a baseline level of speed which is pretty fast. There's not much you can cut at that point. But cheap SSDs got down to 2x the price of hard drives last year. Even after prices stabilized, they're at 3x. Flash catching up relatively soon seems likely. Flash matching the current price of hard drives seems even more likely.
Interesting, thanks. I'm quite hopeful to be hard drive free at some point in my NAS
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#28I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.
I'm using these (Samsung 970 QVO) as the data drive in a couple of workstations right now. Not the fastest SSD for a number of reasons, but still a lot faster than a mechanical drive. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089C3TZL9/ Oddly, these were ~$300 when I bought them at the end of 2023, but the price has now doubled.
I'm looking forward to the next NAND price crash in a year or two, hopefully we will start to see 16TB client SSDs hit the market then.
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#29Anyone in the industry able to tell me where WD sits in the flash space? I use WD for my HDDs pretty exclusively but had assumed their SSD offerings were mostly white label drives they slapped their name on, are they a real competitor in the space?
WD is the real deal, they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house. They acquired Sandisk and HGST so there's a lot of expertise under their roof.
> they design their own SSD controller silicon in-house
And they've been leaning into RISC-V[1] due to this.
[1]: https://blog.westerndigital.com/risc-v-swerv-core-open-sourc...
Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
#30I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.
I'd love to find a M2-only NAS in a very low profile form factor. I live in a small apartment and prefer small electronics that can hide in a cabinet, but it seems like all of the NAS enclosures that I've ever seen recommended are fucking huge.