Samsung Electronics will have plenty to share during this week’s NVIDIA GTC 2024 conference, and one of its announcements will be for an SSD subscription service, according to reports online. “The subscription service will help reduce initial investment costs in storage infrastructure for our customers and cut down on maintenance expenses,” a rep explained.
Business Korea on how it’ll work:
This business model allows customers to use the service by paying a subscription fee instead of purchasing the ultra-high-capacity SSD solutions outright. Enterprises using the service can flexibly utilize SSD storage without the need to build separate infrastructure, while simultaneously receiving various services from Samsung Electronics related to storage management, security, and upgrades.
Samsung is also reportedly planning to unveil:
- New memory solutions for AI and machine learning
- 12-layer High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) 3E
- PBSSD, a new petabyte-level SSD storage device
Business Korea noted:
A petabyte represents a unit 1,000 times larger than a terabyte (TB); 1 PB can hold approximately 174,000 movies if each is 6 GB in size.
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I guess if you can subscribe to server cores, why the heck not SSDs
Well that's something I sure as shit won't be utilizing. Or locking it down so it can't report in and manually unlocking the entire drive on a personal system. Enterprise system whatever.. if they want to be paying for servers forever why not.
They are all learning from IBM that has mastered RMR installs for hardware forever ago. Back when they would sell customers fully loaded RS/6000, AS400, or mainframe systems. But through licensing only unlock x amount of cores or memory. I'm sure now it's subscription based with on demand processing as if you were in the cloud.
For an enterprise it can make sense because your partially licensed system can have a full on CPU failure and just bring one of the non used CPU's online and mark the old one bad. Everything keeps running until the tech can come onsite to replace what has failed. In many cases without taking the unit down. That is why they are so expensive. Oh and their I/O is second to NONE. Nobody can touch the I/O of their hardware. But you're paying a big premium for it.
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Join Discussion →I guess if you can subscribe to server cores, why the heck not SSDs
Well that's something I sure as shit won't be utilizing. Or locking it down so it can't report in and manually unlocking the entire drive on a personal system. Enterprise system whatever.. if they want to be paying for servers forever why not.
They are all learning from IBM that has mastered RMR installs for hardware forever ago. Back when they would sell customers fully loaded RS/6000, AS400, or mainframe systems. But through licensing only unlock x amount of cores or memory. I'm sure now it's subscription based with on demand processing as if you were in the cloud.
For an enterprise it can make sense because your partially licensed system can have a full on CPU failure and just bring one of the non used CPU's online and mark the old one bad. Everything keeps running until the tech can come onsite to replace what has failed. In many cases without taking the unit down. That is why they are so expensive. Oh and their I/O is second to NONE. Nobody can touch the I/O of their hardware. But you're paying a big premium for it.