Two companies announce 2 TB SSDs - but can you afford them?

Two companies have announced that they will soon introduce 2 TB Solid State Disks (SSDs). Foremay a company specialized in mission critical computing solutions has announced the SC199 and TC166. Both are 2.5" SATA drives and the SC199  is targeted at users who run mission critical applications and the TC166 is sold for the usage in terminals.

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For both you can opt to get either industrial (probably SLC) and commercial  (probably MLC) grade drives. They come with the usual SSD features but also with militairy secure erase methods, hardware based encryption and conformal coating. Unfortunately the company hasn't disclosed any performance numbers or pricing information but does mention that the drives are currently in production.

OWC is a company that specializes in Apple hardware. Their offering of a 2 TB SSD is a 3.5" drive, which means it's larger than the SSDs of Foremay and will be mainly suitable for desktop computers where they fit in normal HDD/ODD bays. The drives are named Mercury Viper and contain a SandForce controller. They are connected to the rest of the computer through SATA-3 and OWC specifies read speeds of up to 600 MB/s.

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Also OWC doesn't give any information about the price of the drives but does mention that the Viper is designed for performance and capacity, not price. The development of the drive is still ongoing and OWC expects to be able to give more information on the price and availability at the end of the first quarter of 2013.

Recently announced 512 GB Kingston SSDs were $1750, which means $3.5 a GB. If the same price per GB would be applied to these drives they would cost a whopping $7000,-

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