Samsung has announced the world's largest solid-state drive. The actual volume of the record-holder reaches 30.72 terabytes. The device, which belongs to the standard "computer" form factor of 2.5 inches, you can record over 5,700 movies as Full HD.

The novelty, however, is not designed for ordinary users, but for corporate customers who want to move from mechanical disks to more solid, faster and quieter ones. As they say in Samsung, the model PM1643 is formed from 32 packages of NAND flash memory of 1 TB, each of which contains 16 layers of V-NAND 512 GB chips.

Supermodel drive was twice as spacious as the previous record 16 TB, which was also made by Samsung in March 2016. (True, the later 60-terabyte SSD introduced Seagate Technology, but this model had a 3.5-inch case and acted as a "sample technology," not a real product.)

The new SSD-record holder Samsung, which has the interface SAS (Serial Attached SCSI), shows an impressive speed of sequential reading (2.1 thousand MB / s) and recording (1.7 thousand MB / s). For comparison, in a typical SSD-drive SATA, these figures are on average 550 MB / s.