the biggest consumer SSD is so small!!

 - Fricking ridiculous... Wait, hold on a second, 13.9 terabytes. This QX extra large SSD has a whopping 15.3 terabytes of capacity. That's right my friends. Over 15 terabytes on a single SSD. This thing probably has more storage in it than your entire household. What would you even do with this... Get off, This much Solid State storage and how much would you pay for it? I legit want to know. Can you guys leave a comment below? What would you do with this? How much would you pay? As for what we would do with it. Well, I've got some ideas. Ideas like telling you aboutour sponsor Ridge Wallet. Ridge Wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frameand RFID blocking plates. Check out how they can keepyour wallet bulged down and use offer code "Linus" to save 10% and get free worldwide shipping. (upbeat music) Unlike the 100 terabyteExaDrive from Nimbus Data that we checked out recently, this drive from TeamGroup fits in a standard, two and a half inch bay, hasn't been mercilessly disassembled yet, and is aimed at consumers toput in a normal gaming rig, like the one behind me right there. Crazy, right? It's crazy to think about like on these two, two anda half inch drive sleds, but boom. 30 terabytes of Solid State towards, you know, there was a trend in SSDs where at first they were madeof like really thick housing, so they'd feel like quality. And then over time, youknow, the PC industry, they cheaped out and cheaped out until they were basicallymade of aluminum foil on the internals. But this one's heavy. You notice that? It's heavy. There's a lotof NAND chips in there. And I mean, compared to a hard drive, it weighs practically nothing. Like, look at that. This is 12 up to 20 terabytes. 15 terabytes. I mean, no wonder theData Center loves SSD now. It's not cheap, but dense for sure. Okay. Well, let's pop that puppy on there. Where'd the cable go? Oh. Wow, it's like you went out of your way to get the most ass-looking SATA cable. Thank you for that. Thanks for nothing. Let's go ahead and fire itup ladies and gentlemen. There it is. There's ourC drive 446 gigabytes, ew. And then we got the big O drive. That's a lot of terabytes. Freaking ridic... Wait, hold on a second. 13.9 terabytes. What happened to my 15.3, a rip off? I believe this is what'sknown as a bra moment. Kids, can you verify pleaseas this a bra moment? Okay, it's not. Because Team Group uses standard gigabytes for the specifications, where one gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, which is 1000 kilobytes, et cetera. But Microsoft likes to thinkdifferent, so to speak, and they use tebibytesand gibibytes instead. So what that means is thatto windows one gigabyte is 1024 megabytes, which is 1024 kilobytes. Because of this discrepancy, Windows only sees thedrive as being about 91% of its actual capacity. I wish that this problemwould just go away, but for that to happen, we'd have to get allthe software engineers to agree with all the hardware engineers, and they both have to agreewith all the marketing people, which I think we all knowis never gonna happen. This puppy is rated at 560megabytes per second reads and up to 480 megabytes per second writes. Not real impressive by today's standards where you'll find drives that are like, three, four, five, six gigabytes,a second reads and writes. Of course, sequential reads and writes are not the be all and end allof drive performance anyway. Okay. So we won't be doing anysequential driving speed porn with this particular drive. I mean, it definitely meets the rate. It's back 550 megabytes asecond reads, but that's okay, because we've actually got thatcoming with an early look at Kioxia's next gen U.3 enterprise drive. So, get subscribed soyou don't miss that one. This, this is more about, this is more of a capacity play. But why is it so slow? This is a brand new drive. Well, there's a couple of reasons. First of all, it uses theSEDA interface which is, getting on in age andnot being revised anymore for higher speeds because it's been mostlyreplaced by PCI Express. Number two, is that ituses the AHCI protocol, which really was designed formagnetic drives, not for SSDs. That's why all thosenew PCI Express drives, use NVMe instead. But, it's got other problems. Even if it hooked upto a faster interface, it uses QLC NAND, whichsacrifices some of its durability and its performance forthe sake of cramming in more capacity. So this Sabrent Q NVMe PCIeM.2 is another perfect example of a QLC product. It's an eight terabyte drive, but of course gives up some performance, particularly on writes. Still it's impressive though. Cramming 15 freaking terabytes of data into this tiny enclosurewith no moving parts. And there's plenty of performance for a lot of things you might want to do. So let's have a look atsome of the stuff that our probation writercopied onto the drive. See if we can bring it to its knees. Hello. Did it lock up again? Is this thing just like a piece of (beep). Obviously for our viewers,a big one would be games. You guys might've noticed that, we only managed to fill up like, one and a half terabytes of this thing. To put this in context, this drive can fit 61copies of CoD Warzone on it. And when it comes to loading times, let's use Grand TheftAuto V as our example. It's the game with notoriouslylong loading times. Fire up some story mode here. And in the meantime, I'll give you some more contextfor how huge this thing is. 307 Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray movies, nearly 3.1 million songs if we assume the averagestream quality is an MP3 file that's roughly five megabytes. Not bad, right? Not bad. Now, in the future, game loading time performance could be affected bytechnologies like direct storage. (background noise drowns out other sounds) Oh my goodness. Okay. (Linus laughs) In the future you couldrun into bottlenecks with games that use direct storage, which is going to allow much, much faster level loading times, kind of like you see in the PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Series. But for now, withclassically designed games, I wouldn't expect any appreciableperformance difference between this and just about anything else. Man, this poor Titan isreally showing its age here. Smells. This is one of our old editing stations. It freezes if you move it around too much. - [Game Character] Sit tight, I'll have-- - Oh, enough of that though. Sorry new writer, we don't have time to look at your memes and smash mouth collection. Somebody once told me that it's just not worth our audience's time. Time to disassemble this thing. So, I think you just popoff those four screws and crack it open, right? Wait, how much does this thing cost? Should I be worried about breaking it? No, don't tell me, don't spoil it. So, a screw under here. Hold on. Hey, there it is. Oh, all right. That's a pretty normal looking drive. We got eight NAND flash chips here. We've got two DRAM chips mounted here. What's this? Have we Googled this part number yet? I wanna know how much RAMthis freaking thing has, 'cause theoretically it should have like eight to 16 gigs of R... There's no way. Like there's no way they did that. But this is 2666 megahertz DDR4. And I believe these areactually 16 gigabit dies. So that would mean that there'sat least four gigs of RAM. And I've only lookedat one side of the PCV. What are these Phison chips here? Oh my God, my eyes are going, "need my reading glasses". Holy (beep). This thing actually has eight gigs of RAM. There's two more (mumbles)on the other side. This thing is fricking nuts. Are these power loss capacitors over here? Does this thing havepower loss protection? Oh my God, I guess you'dneed so many of them because in order to flusheight gigabytes of data, this thing would have to save power for a fricking long time. Holy crap balls. So everyone of these NANDpackages here is a terabyte, okay? It's got eight gigabytes of RAM and is using a Phison PS3112. So like, yeah, fine. That is some sweet engineering. To be clear, Team Group does not advertise any kind of power loss protection. I am guessing that that'swhat these puppies are for. One thing to note, however, is that the building materialsfor this particular drive can apparently change, from unit to unit because this is a non-standard skew and is actually built to order. Not sure if that's ahuge problem since this, isn't the sort of thing thatyour average consumer can buy given that it cost... Oh my God, we got tothe part of the script where I find out how much it costs. $4,000 and, making matters more challenging, is the fact that youcould actually buy two, of these eight terabyte,PCI Express drives and enough hoodies to wear anew one every day of the week from lttstore.com for significantly lessmoney than one of these. Not to mention that itwould be way faster. I could see it being usefulfor maybe video editors or a high capacity storage server that uses two and a half inch base. But funny thing is it's not super great for large amounts of sustained writes, since it's write endurancesays, "only 2,560 terabytes." Now that's still a lot. It's actually comparable to a four terabyte, Samsung 860 EVO, but it's relatively low for a 16 terabyte. Excuse me, 15.3 terabyte drive, since you could only actually wipe and refill this thing 167 times. That doesn't feel like alot of times for $4,000. Maybe you just want long-term storage with higher reliability than a hard drive and you have money to burn. Okay. So it doesn't matter. The drive has its uses, but it's not an economy or budget option. And it also doesn't really make sense if you're an enthusiast, since you'd be betterserved with a smaller, higher performance drive and then maybe somekind of magnetic storage with an SSD cache on it or something. But if you absolutely need 15 terabytes in a two and a half inch data enclosure, then I guess this is there for you. For you and only you. Staying cool though, isn't it? So good job Team Group formaking this weird thing, because you could, even though you must've known almost nobody would actually buy it. Unless of course you guyswanna prove me wrong. Cause as usual, we'regonna have affiliate links to where to buy it, inthe video description. What I'm expecting to pop up, is this message from our sponsor. 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