Mushkin Enhanced Source HC 16 TB SSD Begins Showing Up at Retailers

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Mushkin Enhanced’s Source HC 16 TB SSD has begun showing up at select retailers such as Newegg. The SSD isn’t exactly a bargain at $2,599.99, but it seems like an exciting prospect for richer gamers who have dreamed about storing their entire Steam libraries on a single SSD. The drive could also be a tantalizing option for users who are slowly being driven insane by the noise of the spinning disks in their home media servers and are desperate enough to pay big bucks for silence.



Peak performance is obviously not the main selling point of Mushkin’s TLC-based Source HC 16 TB SSD, but the SATA drive does offer max sequential read and write speeds of up to 555 MB/s and 535 MB/s, respectively, which should be adequate for general media access. It is rated for 11,375 TBW and features a MTBF of 1,500,000 hours.



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[Grimlakin]

These could make a nice 30ish terrabyte raid 5 with 4 disks. (one for hot spare.) Yet wow pricy.

 

[Brian_B]

Hmm

Headline says 16TB, pic says 1TB

I mean, I'm sure it wouldn't look much different with a 6 in there, but they should at least have a pic of the actual product.

 

[Zarathustra]

SATA though...

If you have to go SATA you'd be much better off RAID:ing a bunch of smaller disks to help overcome the 6gbit limitation of SATA. Even with a redundant drive in there to help avoid striping failures I bet it would still be price competitive, because a 16TB drive is going to be expensive