News World's highest-capacity SSD sees retail price hikes -- Solidigm 61.44TB SSD pricing nearly doubles

[Admin]

Solidigm's 61.44TB SSD now costs over $7,000, up from around $4,000 earlier this year.

World's highest-capacity SSD sees retail price hikes -- Solidigm 61.44TB SSD pricing nearly doubles : Read more

 

[kerberos_20]

doesnt WD have 122.88TB ssd already?

 

[Jame5]

Yup. A decent amount of reporting has been done on the new "128TB" class SSDs that launched this year. I guess that's the trick. Launched, not necessarily readily available.

 

[thestryker]

doesnt WD have 122.88TB ssd already?

No they don't, and nobody else does either. It's likely these will appear throughout the next year though.

SK Hynix and Western Digital have demonstrated 120TB class drives running, but nothing beyond prototypes. Samsung hasn't done much beyond suggesting it's possible when they launched their 60TB class drives. Phison is expanding into SSDs and already has 30TB class drives, but anything beyond that is still in roadmap form.

 

[cia1413]

Is this article talking about the price increases that happened after the earthquakes that shut down the factory that makes these for a while or did I miss another price hike some time in the past 6 months?

 

[usertests]

Yup. A decent amount of reporting has been done on the new "128TB" class SSDs that launched this year. I guess that's the trick. Launched, not necessarily readily available.

When it comes to enterprise drives, I think some big customers get them before others and kind of beta test them. Forget launch dates, the best info you're likely to find is an announcement date. But it's irrelevant to 99.9% of people.

Looking forward to seeing 16 TB consumer drives, and how long the industry is willing to give consumers TLC NAND.

 

[MisterZ]

What's the IGM mean in Solid IGM?

 

[thestryker]

What's the IGM mean in Solid IGM?

I don't believe they've ever said, but the supposition from Anandtech seems logical:

Finally, SK hynix is taking the Intel assets they’ve acquired thus far and placing them into a new spin-off company, Solidigm. The standalone subsidiary, whose name is apparently a play on “paradigm” and “solid state storage” has set up shop in San Jose, and is being run by former Intel Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group SVP and GM, Rob Crooke.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17134/intel-sells-ssd-business-to-sk-hynix-as-new-subsidiary-solidigm