The World Largest Capacity Hard Drive has Been Launched by Samsung with 16TB Space

Record was broken when the Korean giants Samsung unveiled the first world hard drive with 16TB capacity.

In case you are still not very familiar or you still get confused with Terabyte sizes, 16TB in gigabyte is same thing as saying 16 thousand gigabyte.

The model for the hard drive is the PM1633a and it is a 2.5 inch solid state drive with exact capacity as 15.56 TB.

With that size, we can equivalently say that it can hold up to about 286 days of non-stop video play, and when you have say an average of 5mb MP3 songs, it means you can transfer up to about 3.2milion songs into the Samsung PM1633a drive.

The technology for that humongous capacity size for a hard drive was made possible by the use of Samsung new 256 bit NAND flash die.

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The only other hard drive capacity near to this is the 10TB hard drive developed by Seagate and Western Digital, now indicative that the former world number one largest capacity hard drive has just been relegated to second position with the new 16TB Samsung PM1633a hard drive on top.

The pricing of this new hard drive has not being revealed but speculations here and there suggest that it could be priced as high as $5k to $7k…obviously signifying that it will not be for the faint pocket hearted.