Samsung came up with a 8TB SSD:
The advantages are:
Speed
reliable - no moving parts
Disadvantages are:
Cost
Inability to store data long term
The Terabytes Written rating, or should I say Petabytes Written is 2.4. This thing will outlive all of here under normal non-commercial use. And they are making rapid advances.
so you know, 16TB, 32TB is probably coming.
cost is what keeps these from being in the data centers full time. You can get a 8TB HDD for a small fraction of the cost.
I've had commercial 3.5" HDD, like Seagate Cheeta 15500 RPMs, the fastest HDD one can get and had one fail on me. But that's what data centers use and they don't care about failed HDD, they have RAID.
But I am not going to back to HDDs. In private use, they are slow, noisy, consume more power and if you drop your laptop, the HDD is the first thing to fail.
If you picture the floating head, it's like a Bowing 747 flying 1" off the ground, the clearances are nuts. One smoke particle gets in and it's done, or any shock.
It is just a matter of time until data centers start using SSDs when the price becomes manageable, you know like 4K HDTVs.
My gaming laptop has 4 SSDs, and they are all 2TB except for 1 which is 4TB, that's 10TB of storage, there is no way to pack that much storage via HDDs.
Samsung came up with 990 Pro, which 4TB
www.samsung.com
If I got 2 of these, and swapped the 4TB QVO for a 8TB QVO I would have 18TB of storage and very fast storage at that, (8000Mbs access speed versus 80 Mbs for an HDD, he did not mention how aggravatingly SLOW the HDD is)
If I swapped my bluray disk for a 8TB QVO, that would give it 26TB of storage.
cost is the only thing keeping me from doing it.