Foremay Claims 'World's First' 2TB 2.5-inch SSD
SSD storage is slowly become more and more affordable. With prices now at around a dollar per GB, these drives have long since moved beyond small boot drives. Still, while it's not unusual for a new PC to come with 256GB of SSD storage, the format hasn't yet hit the point where capacities as large as 1TB are a dime a dozen. This week, Foremay is claiming the first 2.5-inch 2TB SSD.
Almost two years after the launch of its 1TB 2.5-inch SSD, Foremay has announced the launch of its 2TB capacity model. The 2.5-inch SATA drive is just 9.5mm thick and is available under the company's consumer brand as well as its industrial line of drives.
"By leveraging Foremay's patent pending technologies, we are proud to deliver the world's first 2TB SSD in standard 2.5" SATA form factor," said Jack Winters , Foremay's CTO and co-founder. "We hope our high reliability 2 TB SSD drives can help create more design freedom and storage space for both mission-critical and enterprise applications."
No details on price or availability (or performance) but we'll keep you posted on that one. No doubt the price will be a 'first-born-plus-arm-and-leg' affair, anyway.

I'd say it'll be well over $2000. You can expect to pay at least $1/gb for this tech, and probably way more than that.
I'd say it'll be well over $2000. You can expect to pay at least $1/gb for this tech, and probably way more than that.
As someone else said already, i expect this thing going between 1$ and 2$ per gigabyte.
So between $2000 and $4000 easily.
For $600. If these guys want to be competitive they will keep it around $1200. Obviously there should be some small premium since it is one drive.
nice... i need a good 512gb ssd... heres hopeing that gets to about 200$ in a year or two.
price it like HDDs and put those greedy suckers out of business for good.
Would the risk of corruption be too high?
all previous drives over 1TB have been PCIe card based. This is the first 2.5" drive.
I knew we would see these this year with the latest die shrinks, but I thought it would not be until the summer at least! Seeing these this early is pretty awesome!
For businesses with server farms... there is simply no reason now to not switch to SSD. $1/GB is not that much worse than the cost of a server class drive, plus you have less heat, less noise, less cooling cost, insanely higher performance, relatively predictable failure rates, and now ~2x the data density of a HDD! That is absolutely insane!
Even with the cost per device being high, SSDs would be cheaper to run in the long run. You need less drives to achieve peak performance, now less drives to achieve your required pool size, and they all fit in less space, less power, and less cooling costs. Over the 3-5 years that the drive would last it would all add up pretty well.
I really hope to see these types of drives come down in price over the next few years. I just purchased 2 3TB drives for my RIAD1, and I am seriously hoping to have these be my last HDDs I ever purchase. My wife's machine is already on SSD, and I have 2 SSDs in RAID0 for my own system drive. It is just absolutely mind-blowing tech, and HDDs cannot go away quick enough.
RAID 5 protects against corruption - it's redundant. The problem is you wouldn't see any performance benefits and you lose the equivalent of one drive's storage from your array.
If it's only $800 I'm a first day buyer, but $2k seems more realistic.
you do get better performance raid 5 is stripping with parity.
RAID5 sets have an increased read IO due to data striping but writes take a hit by a factor of about 4. If you want a balance of best read/write perf and protection a RAID1+0 configuration would be better.