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Tech giant just unleashed a 16TB 'world's largest' storage device

It’s called the PM1663a drive and has a massive formatted capacity of 15.36TB and is aimed at high capacity markets.

Samsung's new 16TB SSD which it calls the world's largest storage device

Samsung has announced a new solid-state drive - which it calls the world’s highest capacity storage device – which is powered by its new 3D vertical-NAND flash memory chips.

It’s called the PM1663a drive and has a massive formatted capacity of 15.36TB and is aimed at high capacity markets, data centers, and enterprise-grade markets with huge capacity and speed requirements.

The drive has a standard 2.5-inch enclosure but is two times thicker than the average drive which are used in consumer products like laptops. Samsung had to use 480 of its 256GB V-NAND flash chips – each of which has 48 layers of NAND cells each - which it recently unveiled to achieve this data capacity.

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Samsung made the announcement at the annual flash memory summit which was just concluded in the United States, but didn’t add any pricing details.

Samsung's highest-capacity consumer-grade SSD are the recently launched 2TB 850 Pro and 850 Evo models.

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