- Fricking ridiculous... Wait, hold on a second, 13.9 terabytes. This QX extra large SSD has a whopping 15.3 terabytes of capacity. That's right my friends. Over 15 terabytes on a single SSD. This thing probably has more storage in it than your entire household. What would you even do with this... Get off, This much Solid State storage and how much would you pay for it? I legit want to know. Can you guys leave a comment below? What would you do with this? How much would you pay? As for what we would do with it. Well, I've got some ideas. Ideas like telling you about
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ExaDrive from Nimbus Data that we checked out recently, this drive from Team
Group fits in a standard, two and a half inch bay, hasn't been mercilessly disassembled yet, and is aimed at consumers to
put in a normal gaming rig, like the one behind me right there. Crazy, right? It's crazy to think about like on these two, two and
a half inch drive sleds, but boom. 30 terabytes of Solid State towards, you know, there was a trend in SSDs where at first they were made
of like really thick housing, so they'd feel like quality. And then over time, you
know, the PC industry, they cheaped out and cheaped out until they were basically
made of aluminum foil on the internals. But this one's heavy. You notice that? It's heavy. There's a lot
of NAND chips in there. And I mean, compared to a hard drive, it weighs practically nothing. Like, look at that. This is 12 up to 20 terabytes. 15 terabytes. I mean, no wonder the
Data Center loves SSD now. It's not cheap, but dense for sure. Okay. Well, let's pop that puppy on there. Where'd the cable go? Oh. Wow, it's like you went out of your way to get the most ass-looking SATA cable. Thank you for that. Thanks for nothing. Let's go ahead and fire it
up ladies and gentlemen. There it is. There's our
C drive 446 gigabytes, ew. And then we got the big O drive. That's a lot of terabytes. Freaking ridic... Wait, hold on a second. 13.9 terabytes. What happened to my 15.3, a rip off? I believe this is what's
known as a bra moment. Kids, can you verify please
as this a bra moment? Okay, it's not. Because Team Group uses standard gigabytes for the specifications, where one gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, which is 1000 kilobytes, et cetera. But Microsoft likes to think
different, so to speak, and they use tebibytes
and gibibytes instead. So what that means is that
to windows one gigabyte is 1024 megabytes, which is 1024 kilobytes. Because of this discrepancy, Windows only sees the
drive as being about 91% of its actual capacity. I wish that this problem
would just go away, but for that to happen, we'd have to get all
the software engineers to agree with all the hardware engineers, and they both have to agree
with all the marketing people, which I think we all know
is never gonna happen. This puppy is rated at 560
megabytes per second reads and up to 480 megabytes per second writes. Not real impressive by today's standards where you'll find drives that are like, three, four, five, six gigabytes,
a second reads and writes. Of course, sequential reads and writes are not the be all and end all
of drive performance anyway. Okay. So we won't be doing any
sequential driving speed porn with this particular drive. I mean, it definitely meets the rate. It's back 550 megabytes a
second reads, but that's okay, because we've actually got that
coming with an early look at Kioxia's next gen U.3 enterprise drive. So, get subscribed so
you don't miss that one. This, this is more about, this is more of a capacity play. But why is it so slow? This is a brand new drive. Well, there's a couple of reasons. First of all, it uses the
SEDA interface which is, getting on in age and
not being revised anymore for higher speeds because it's been mostly
replaced by PCI Express. Number two, is that it
uses the AHCI protocol, which really was designed for
magnetic drives, not for SSDs. That's why all those
new PCI Express drives, use NVMe instead. But, it's got other problems. Even if it hooked up
to a faster interface, it uses QLC NAND, which
sacrifices some of its durability and its performance for
the sake of cramming in more capacity. So this Sabrent Q NVMe PCIe
M.2 is another perfect example of a QLC product. It's an eight terabyte drive, but of course gives up some performance, particularly on writes. Still it's impressive though. Cramming 15 freaking terabytes of data into this tiny enclosure
with no moving parts. And there's plenty of performance for a lot of things you might want to do. So let's have a look at
some of the stuff that our probation writer
copied onto the drive. See if we can bring it to its knees. Hello. Did it lock up again? Is this thing just like a piece of (beep). Obviously for our viewers,
a big one would be games. You guys might've noticed that, we only managed to fill up like, one and a half terabytes of this thing. To put this in context, this drive can fit 61
copies of CoD Warzone on it. And when it comes to loading times, let's use Grand Theft
Auto V as our example. It's the game with notoriously
long loading times. Fire up some story mode here. And in the meantime, I'll give you some more context
for how huge this thing is. 307 Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray movies, nearly 3.1 million songs if we assume the average
stream quality is an MP3 file that's roughly five megabytes. Not bad, right? Not bad. Now, in the future, game loading time performance could be affected by
technologies like direct storage. (background noise drowns out other sounds) Oh my goodness. Okay. (Linus laughs) In the future you could
run into bottlenecks with games that use direct storage, which is going to allow much, much faster level loading times, kind of like you see in the PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Series. But for now, with
classically designed games, I wouldn't expect any appreciable
performance difference between this and just about anything else. Man, this poor Titan is
really showing its age here. Smells. This is one of our old editing stations. It freezes if you move it around too much. - [Game Character] Sit tight, I'll have-- - Oh, enough of that though. Sorry new writer, we don't have time to look at your memes and smash mouth collection. Somebody once told me that it's just not worth our audience's time. Time to disassemble this thing. So, I think you just pop
off those four screws and crack it open, right? Wait, how much does this thing cost? Should I be worried about breaking it? No, don't tell me, don't spoil it. So, a screw under here. Hold on. Hey, there it is. Oh, all right. That's a pretty normal looking drive. We got eight NAND flash chips here. We've got two DRAM chips mounted here. What's this? Have we Googled this part number yet? I wanna know how much RAM
this freaking thing has, 'cause theoretically it should have like eight to 16 gigs of R... There's no way. Like there's no way they did that. But this is 2666 megahertz DDR4. And I believe these are
actually 16 gigabit dies. So that would mean that there's
at least four gigs of RAM. And I've only looked
at one side of the PCV. What are these Phison chips here? Oh my God, my eyes are going, "need my reading glasses". Holy (beep). This thing actually has eight gigs of RAM. There's two more (mumbles)
on the other side. This thing is fricking nuts. Are these power loss capacitors over here? Does this thing have
power loss protection? Oh my God, I guess you'd
need so many of them because in order to flush
eight gigabytes of data, this thing would have to save power for a fricking long time. Holy crap balls. So everyone of these NAND
packages here is a terabyte, okay? It's got eight gigabytes of RAM and is using a Phison PS3112. So like, yeah, fine. That is some sweet engineering. To be clear, Team Group does not advertise any kind of power loss protection. I am guessing that that's
what these puppies are for. One thing to note, however, is that the building materials
for this particular drive can apparently change, from unit to unit because this is a non-standard skew and is actually built to order. Not sure if that's a
huge problem since this, isn't the sort of thing that
your average consumer can buy given that it cost... Oh my God, we got to
the part of the script where I find out how much it costs. $4,000 and, making matters more challenging, is the fact that you
could actually buy two, of these eight terabyte,
PCI Express drives and enough hoodies to wear a
new one every day of the week from lttstore.com for significantly less
money than one of these. Not to mention that it
would be way faster. I could see it being useful
for maybe video editors or a high capacity storage server that uses two and a half inch base. But funny thing is it's not super great for large amounts of sustained writes, since it's write endurance
says, "only 2,560 terabytes." Now that's still a lot. It's actually comparable to a four terabyte, Samsung 860 EVO, but it's relatively low for a 16 terabyte. Excuse me, 15.3 terabyte drive, since you could only actually wipe and refill this thing 167 times. That doesn't feel like a
lot of times for $4,000. Maybe you just want long-term storage with higher reliability than a hard drive and you have money to burn. Okay. So it doesn't matter. The drive has its uses, but it's not an economy or budget option. And it also doesn't really make sense if you're an enthusiast, since you'd be better
served with a smaller, higher performance drive and then maybe some
kind of magnetic storage with an SSD cache on it or something. But if you absolutely need 15 terabytes in a two and a half inch data enclosure, then I guess this is there for you. For you and only you. Staying cool though, isn't it? So good job Team Group for
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