Fixstars comes with 13TB SSD in 2.5″ form factor

Fixstars is coming with a 2.5″ SSD with a storage capacity of 13 terabytes. A price has not been disclosed, but the makers are hinting at around $13,000. It’s not the largest SSD, but that honor goes to Samsung, which launched in 2015. showed a 16TB SSD.

The SATA600 SSD achieves sequential write and read speeds of 580 and 520MB/s. Fixstars does not provide much more details about things like random read and the structure of the SSD. The Japanese manufacturer does say that the SSD-13000M uses 15nm mlc memory. There will also be a 10TB variant of the SSD.

Fixstars does not disclose a suggested retail price and tells Computerworld that the price may fluctuate slightly. Those interested should count on about $1 per gigabyte, or $13,000. Fixstars says it wants to sell the SSD to data centers, but consumers who are willing to pay for it can also purchase the SSD.

In 2015, Fixstars already introduced an SSD with a storage capacity of 6TB. At the time, it was the world’s largest SSD. At the moment, Samsung’s PM1633a, which the South Korean manufacturer showed in August 2015, is the SSD with the most storage capacity. Samsung also aims at data centers with its huge SSD. It is not known whether Samsung has actually released the 16TB SSD.