Samsung’s 30TB solid state drive can hold a ton of games

Samsung’s 30TB solid state drive can hold a ton of games

6 years ago
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https://www.pcgamer.com/samsungs-30tb-solid-state-drive-can-hold-a-ton-of-games/

Imagine how many games from your Steam library you could install if you had a 30TB solid state drive. For many gamers, that's enough capacity to store all of them, negating the need to uninstall less frequently played games to make room for newer ones, or having to shuttle certain games to a secondary storage device (usually a mechanical hard drive). Such a scenario might not be all that far off, as Samsung is now mass producing 30.72TB SSD.

Having that much storage space on a single 2.5-inch SSD seems bananas by today's standards, but who knows in a year or three. After all, in the early days of the SSD, having a 128GB SSD was viewed as a luxury, compared to 64GB, 32GB, and even smaller SSDs. It's also substantially larger than the current largest single hard drives, which 'only' hold 12TB each.