Micron Ships Gigantic 245TB SSD (nerds.xyz)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/1918210/micron-ships-gigantic-245tb-ssd
- Source link: https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/micron-245tb-ssd/
> Micron says it is [2]now shipping the world's highest-capacity commercially available SSD , and the numbers are honestly hard to wrap your head around. The new [3]Micron 6600 ION packs 245TB into a single drive and is aimed squarely at AI infrastructure, hyperscalers, and cloud providers dealing with exploding data growth. According to the company, the SSD can reduce rack counts by 82 percent compared to HDD deployments offering similar raw capacity, while also cutting power usage and cooling requirements. Micron says the drive tops out at roughly 30W, which it claims is about half the power draw of comparable hard drive setups.
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> The announcement also feels like another warning sign for spinning disks in the enterprise. Hard drives still dominate bulk storage because of lower cost per terabyte, but SSD capacities keep climbing into territory that used to belong exclusively to HDDs. Micron is also touting major performance gains, claiming up to 84 times better energy efficiency for AI workloads and dramatically lower latency versus HDD-based systems. While nobody is dropping one of these into a home NAS anytime soon, the idea of a quarter petabyte on a single SSD no longer sounds like science fiction.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~BrianFagioli
[2] https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/micron-245tb-ssd/
[3] https://www.micron.com/products/storage/ssd/data-center-ssd/6600-ion
They always say that (Score:2)
Has there ever been a single case of reporting on the next density storage device where the article didn't use the words:
> ... dealing with exploding data growth. ...
Yeah, we know. It is not big news. Stick to comparison with other solutions (did that some .. one silver star) and maybe something interesting with regard to analysis of what the next technology milestone will have to achieve.
Wanna bet? (Score:2)
> While nobody is dropping one of these into a home NAS anytime soon, the idea of a quarter petabyte on a single SSD no longer sounds like science fiction.
You're right, I won't be dropping one of these into my NAS. That would make it a single point of failure, and we can't have that. I'll need three of them.
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In a Beowulf storage cluster configuration, right?
coming soon - quarter petabyte SSD ... (Score:1)
... for the low low price of a quarter peta-buck.
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Maybe just a quarter mega-buck.
But, regardless, far into the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" realm.
Data Center (Score:2)
No surprises on innovations in the AI / Data Center market:
> Built on PCIe® Gen5 and Micron QLC NAND performance, it is purpose-built for AI, cloud, and data centers to help scale sustainably.
Call me when there's affordable big capacity flash drives to replace my spinning rust at an affordable rate.
Today only special pricing on it (Score:2)
254,000 ea. Buy em before they are gone!
Things never change. (Score:1)
In the early 1990s:
“How could anyone ever fill a 10MB drive?”
Answer:
“Porn images.”
Today:
“How could anyone fill a 245TB SSD?”
Answer:
“Same way. Give me less than 6 months.”
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Capture every live OF stream...
And the cost? (Score:2)
How does this compare with an HD? Before you say hard drives are dead that's a critical thing, let's compare all the specs.
This is all about _convenience_! (Score:2)
Lose more shit at once, faster.
Soon to be available on Temu (Score:2)
... I'm sure we all know it's coming :-)
2TB SSD (Score:2)
Is now approaching $1000.00. What are normal people supposed to do?
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Good ol' Lambert's rules of neoliberalism:
Rule #1: Because markets.
Rule #2: Go die!
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/neo-liberalism-expressed-simple-rules.html
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> Is now approaching $1000.00. What are normal people supposed to do?
Probably nothing. Are there many consumer level motherboards that can support a U.2 or an E.3 drive?
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The SSD would cost $10 but only the commissars would be able to buy them because they would always be out of stock everywhere else.
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"What's as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, ..."
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Macroeconomic theory was surprisingly deficient in the mid-century Soviet Union, or rather someone there took Marx's surplus value theory to the logical extreme, while ignoring all other research on the subject. But hey, not the first time people slavishly follow a single source material to their detriment. (most religions are the same way)
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> What are normal people supposed to do?
It looks like a omen to take up farming.
Maybe I should pull some of my 4TB nvme sticks and buy my kid a used car...
Re:2TB SSD (Score:5, Informative)
>> What are normal people supposed to do?
> It looks like a omen to take up farming.
Before or after 30% of the world's fertilizer shipments resume through the Strait of Hormuz and prices come down? Noting that ocean transit times are several weeks to months.
[1]Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Why Fertilizer Relief is Years Away for U.S. Farmers [agweb.com]
[1] https://www.agweb.com/news/business/strait-hormuz-crisis-why-fertilizer-relief-years-away-u-s-farmers
Re: 2TB SSD (Score:1)
or do something without toxic $#!@ from chemical fertilizer which is what most of the world did for centuries [1]https://www.regenagnation.com/... [regenagnation.com]
[1] https://www.regenagnation.com/regenerative-agriculture-101/
Re: 2TB SSD (Score:2)
Most of the world died at the ripe old age of forty for centuries. Lack of food, not "chemicals", is a more common cause of death.
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If you can farm using muscle power only because have you seen the price of farm equipment these days? It makes the RAM and SSD costs look like a bargain.
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Where do you buy stuff? Last year I got an external SSD Sandisk 2TB (SDSSDE30-2T00-G26) for ~160-180 € (I forgot the exact value) from a physical retailer. It's now 209.90 € from my retailer, and 207.69 € from Amazon.
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Those guys pay tariffs (or used to, who knows)
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Apparently this huge 245TB SSD will cost around $80k, which will be around 10x the cost compared to the same capacity HDD set. The HDD power will be 2-3x more, but that power is noise compared to the rack power needed by everything else. There is an advantage in form factor density compared to a set of smaller SSDs, but that density comes at the cost of performance due to a single interface, single queue, and more latency due to TRIM. Performance is a big deal because that's why the much higher cost of S
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That price will drop, as usual with giant bleeding edge stuff - it will become cheaper.
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Performance is not the first concern. Likely you would want to have a separate gateway server with 1-2T that caches reads and writes to RAM, and optimizes infrequent accesses to the SSD itself. Remember, if you expect to update a single 64Kb file on a large capacity SSD, then you're doing it wrong.
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> Is now approaching $1000.00. What are normal people supposed to do?
Wait it out by deleting their old porn.
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Demand software developers start caring about memory print of their software again. Both in RAM and storage.
Unironically. We've lived out at least a decade and a half of "this software stack is utterly unoptimized garbage" "who cares, just slap bigger system requirements. We're not spending money on optimizing something that doesn't matter to anyone since hardware is advancing so fast".
It's good that every decade or so we get a memory and storage crunch and developers actually have to rediscover things like
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That's baloney. First link in Google ($309): [1]https://www.bestbuy.com/produc... [bestbuy.com]
[1] https://www.bestbuy.com/product/wd-blue-sn5100-2tb-internal-ssd-pcie-gen-4-x4-nvme-for-laptops-and-desktops/JXJ62CQ86L/sku/6644706
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No, it is not. It is around $300 for Samsung. Maybe do not believe the sensationalist headlines.
Choose like the first time SSD were expensive (Score:2)
When prices change, evaluate priorities.
If a tool costs a thousand dollars but will generate sufficient profit or save time or add convenience to justify the expense, I'd buy the tool. A thousand bucks is quite affordable for many skilled trades machine budgets. Tradespeople are normal people too.
If a thousand bucks is not affordable, choose different parts accordingly, for example using multiple smaller and/or different storage drives.
If a toy costs a thousand dollars and that is too expensive, choose a di
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> Is now approaching $1000.00. What are normal people supposed to do?
Ignoring your hyperbole regarding actual prices, the answer is that you are supposed to be willing to pay up, or not to purchase at all. Just like C-3PO, your lot in life is to suffer.
Billionaire class will tell us what to do (Score:2)
I'm sure the Billionaire class will tell us normal people what to do. We put them on a pedestal, put them in office, or let them buy our votes in elections.
And you're a Marxist if you aren't on board with allowing our innovative captains of industry to steer this country, no this entire world, to greater heights.
Note: Crucial P310 2TB SSD is under $250.