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  • ddrіver - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    11TB. Only Intel (Micron) could come up with an uneven number of TB in a drive...
  • Wardrop - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    At least they didn't start getting into decimals. 11.32TB would definitely be more awkward.
  • jordanclock - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    What's wrong with 11TB? We don't know how much overprovisioning is being used.
  • deil - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    My bet its 16 TB with 30% over
  • patrickjp93 - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    30% over? No way, closer to 10%. I'm betting it's 12 w/1TB over.
  • Bob-o - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Please knock off your Intel bullshit. It gets tiring, and helps make the comment system useless.
  • Icehawk - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Uh huh. So all of those 3tb drives? Can you please just go somewhere else, there is no ignore function here and having to skip past your drivel in every comment section is old, very old.
  • Icehawk - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    Plus 1tb drives... yawn.

    /rollseyes so hard they get stuck
  • MrSpadge - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    LOL! If that's all ddriver has to complain about he might as well have said "it's the most perfect product in the world!".
  • patrickjp93 - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    Think about your powers of 2 and account for over provisioning. It's a 12TB drive where 1TB serves as the failover.
  • FunBunny2 - Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - link

    once again, the question. when 3D NAND was first presented, particularly TLC, the justification was that such NAND would be built on larger nodes, e.g. 2Xnm, and thus be more durable. has that actually happened, or is current 3D NAND being built on current low durability nodes????
  • Arnulf - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    It was actually built on 40 nm node ... by Samsung (and presumeably others). You can buy 3D TLC based 850 EVO in stores for quite some time now.
  • patrickjp93 - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    I can't pin down if this is 40nm or 32nm, but it's also only 32-layer, whereas Micron has 64-layer production ramping up, and I believe Samsung or Hynix has 72-layer inbound as well. In other words, the capacity can easily double on the same node once again, but we will start going down the nodes again not too long after, if for no other reason than power savings.
  • FunBunny2 - Saturday, November 18, 2017 - link

    thanx to both. will AT reviewers regularly tell us what node is being used in such drives? if the vendors start down the slippery slope to lower durability nodes, esp. if they jump to QLC (and yet higher?).
  • CheapSushi - Thursday, November 16, 2017 - link

    Interesting that they used TLC. Makes me even more curious and hyped for QLC drives to bring the price per GB down for bulk storage.
  • Ahnilated - Monday, November 20, 2017 - link

    Is it just me or does it seem like that is not a lot of writes for these drives?

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