eelnico09
18-11-2014, 07:09 PM
Fuente: http://www.geek.com/chips/sandisk-unveils-a-monster-4tb-ssd-1592769/
SanDisk’s new Optimus Max drive looks like dozens of other 2.5-inch SATA SSDs. This is no bargain-priced 128GB drive, however. It packs a whopping 4TB of enterprise grade capacity.
It’s also designed as a plug-and-play replacement for 15,000rpm SAS drives and is aimed at datacenter use. SanDisk says that the Optimus Max outperforms every other SAS drive on the market, and it’s the only one that packs the speed of an SSD while still matching rotational drives in terms of capacity.
While you could pick one up for your home system if you really wanted to, it’s probably cost-prohibitive at this point. SanDisk hasn’t announced street prices yet, but SAS SSDs aren’t cheap. Not even close. A 200GB OCZ Talos SAS drive runs about $780 right now.
SanDisk’s product page does claim that they’re able to sell the Optimus Max at “SATA SSD-like prices.” You can pick up a 480GB SSD right now for around $235. If SanDisk really is able to offer the Optimus Max at a similar price per gig (about 49 cents), that would put its sticker price at about $2,000. That’s a bit more than most geeks are looking to spend on a drive for their systems at home, but it’s a bargain in enterprise terms.
There is a slight downside to the Optimus Max: it trades a bit of performance for all that extra capacity. SanDisk’s new Lightning Eco series drives actually outperform the overstuffed Optimus Max, with sequential read times that are 225% faster and writes that are 50% faster. They’re only available in capacities up to 1.6TB, though. Where storage density is the primary concern, the slower 4TB Optimus Max wins hands down.
Baratito el disco. Y uno que pensaba que uno de 1tb era mucho para un SSD.
SanDisk’s new Optimus Max drive looks like dozens of other 2.5-inch SATA SSDs. This is no bargain-priced 128GB drive, however. It packs a whopping 4TB of enterprise grade capacity.
It’s also designed as a plug-and-play replacement for 15,000rpm SAS drives and is aimed at datacenter use. SanDisk says that the Optimus Max outperforms every other SAS drive on the market, and it’s the only one that packs the speed of an SSD while still matching rotational drives in terms of capacity.
While you could pick one up for your home system if you really wanted to, it’s probably cost-prohibitive at this point. SanDisk hasn’t announced street prices yet, but SAS SSDs aren’t cheap. Not even close. A 200GB OCZ Talos SAS drive runs about $780 right now.
SanDisk’s product page does claim that they’re able to sell the Optimus Max at “SATA SSD-like prices.” You can pick up a 480GB SSD right now for around $235. If SanDisk really is able to offer the Optimus Max at a similar price per gig (about 49 cents), that would put its sticker price at about $2,000. That’s a bit more than most geeks are looking to spend on a drive for their systems at home, but it’s a bargain in enterprise terms.
There is a slight downside to the Optimus Max: it trades a bit of performance for all that extra capacity. SanDisk’s new Lightning Eco series drives actually outperform the overstuffed Optimus Max, with sequential read times that are 225% faster and writes that are 50% faster. They’re only available in capacities up to 1.6TB, though. Where storage density is the primary concern, the slower 4TB Optimus Max wins hands down.
Baratito el disco. Y uno que pensaba que uno de 1tb era mucho para un SSD.