Seagate Debuts Massive 60 TB SSD

The drive was announced by Seagate at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. Monday.

Release date for the 60TB SAS SSD has been slated sometime in 2017.

Seagate Technology Plc (NASDAQ:STX) managed to pull off what no other external storage manufacturer has achieved with the newly revealed 60 TB SSD drive. These two new products represent the high-performance end of Seagate’s enterprise products lineup – providing a complete ecosystem of HDD, SSD and storage system products.

The drive, intended for use in enterprise data centers, is 45TB larger than Samsung’s PM1633a, which began shipping in March. Yup, you read that right, Seagate is basically the first company to offer an SSD with that much storage, but like we said, it is aimed more towards businesses who might have a need for this amount of storage and speed. Until Seagate’s announcement this week, it was the largest SSD in the world. The new drive can hold 400 million photos and up to 12,000 movies. The company also said that due to the drive’s single controller architecture, it provides the lowest cost per gigabyte seen in the flash memory market of today. “The unnamed SAS SSD has 60TB of 3D TLC into a 3.5” drive.

What’s more, Seagate isn’t content to stop at 60TB, saying that it could eventually expand the the “flexible architecture” used to build the drive into a 100TB model. The former is expected to be available next year, while the latter should be offered via channel partners in the last quarter of 2016. ‘If anything is certain, it’s the fact that across industries, the limits of data growth are boundless.

The launch came as part of the Flash Memory Summit now being held in Santa Clara.

The Seagate 60TB drive is also very power efficient, but will likely carry an extremely high price tag.

The news has ignited excitement among many Seagate loyalists across the globe.