The next time your computer gives you an error about your drive reaching capacity, you have a couple of choices. You could empty your recycling bin and delete some cruft. Or you could go out and buy a freakishly large 15.36 terabyte SSD and solve all your storage problems for just about $10,000.

If that price sounds truly outrageous, that's because this isn't really aimed at people like you or me, regardless of how many movies and games and GIFs we might have saved on our hard drives. This is an SSD aimed at server racks and data centers, places that deal with data in such a tremendous volume that paying $10,000 to be able to store roughly 15 million photos (or roughly 10,971 copies of the Beatles full discography at 320 kbps) on a tiny drive is more cost-effective than paying millions of dollars to open a new data center full of bigger ones.

This isn't the first time we've heard about this SSD—news of its existence cropped up last year. And as we noted then, the 3D "V-NAND" tech this is based on means bigger drives to come because it blows past the typical constraints of similar drives, though at a great monetary cost. Now we know exactly how much. As AnandTech points out, two vendors are currently listing it for $10,311.99 and $9,690, respectively.

Better start saving. Maybe there will be a price-drop when the 32TB model hits.

Source: Samsung via AnandTech, The Verge

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