The opposite day, I despatched my dad—who’s sufficiently old to recollect programming computer systems with punch playing cards—a photograph of a two-terabyte M.2 drive. He replied: “The primary Burroughs 5700 mainframe I labored on had a two-megabyte drive in regards to the measurement of two washing machines.”
Effectively, in line with Western Digital, subsequent Christmas I would have the ability to ship him a tiny SSD with actually eight million instances as a lot storage.
The storage firm (which additionally owns the SanDisk model as of 2016) introduced a slew of recent merchandise forward of the FMS 2024 trade commerce present in Santa Clara. Along with knowledge middle flash storage drives of as much as a mind-boggling 128TB, the corporate can be prepping some thrilling information on the buyer entrance.
In response to its press launch, SanDisk MicroSD playing cards will stretch as much as 4TB with the UHS-1 commonplace and bigger SD playing cards will balloon all the way in which as much as a powerful 8TB. The utmost pace for these playing cards is 10MB/s, in line with the SD Affiliation. That is nice information to your Steam Deck and your digicam, respectively.
What about your PC? Whereas Western Digital is hyping up speedy PCIe 5.0 drives for enterprise, none have been proven off for desktops or laptops earlier than the present. However there is a 16TB model of the SanDisk Desk Drive within the works—that’s double the capability of the most important exterior SSD at the moment offered by the corporate. A transportable model, presumably within the Excessive Moveable SSD type issue or comparable, can be within the proof-of-concept stage.
When will these merchandise arrive and for a way a lot will they promote? We don’t know but. Technically, Western Digital hasn’t dedicated to that 16TB transportable drive, however I’d be very shocked if it isn’t accessible sooner or later in 2025. (The header picture for this story is a mockup, btw.) In case you’re , you may wish to begin saving now—an 8TB SanDisk Desk Drive at the moment goes for $700.
