Samsung, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has officially announced and released a SSD (Solid State Drive) with a storage capacity of 16TB (terabytes).
Spokespeople for the company officially announced the new storage unit at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit last August.
For those who are are wondering just how big a terabyte really is, picture this. A terabyte is equivalent in size to about 1,000GB (gigabytes). This means that Samsung’s new drive is capable of housing around 16,000GB. The average computer hard drives in today’s world are only around 500GB, which adds up to just half of a single terabyte.
To put this massive number into perspective, to match the capacity of Samsung’s drive, you would need one of the following…
- 1.3 of all worldwide telescope data
- 81.3 typical hard drives (with a capacity of 200GB each)
- 6.6 Billion Pages
- 25,866.6 CD’s
- 3,486.6 DVD’s
- 12.8 Human Brains
- 1.3 Million Phone Books
- or 6.6 billion typed, single-spaced sheets of paper
Samsung’s new 16TB Solid State Drive will soon be available for purchase online at several online retailers and is mathematically projected to cost roughly around $9,100. While this is a mathematical estimation comparing drive storage size to price, hopefully the new SSD will become more affordable to the public as time rolls on.
Reah Frydrych 
Nathan Tingle 
Brandon Hall