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Tuesday Technology: On limitations of large SSD’s

Interesting article: OWC Mercury Electra 3G MAX 960GB Review: 1TB of NAND in 2.5″ Form Factor

TL;DR: Current consumer grade disk controllers are limited to how much memory they can access from solid-state drives. Until higher density NAND memory chips or different controllers are available, SSD’s (especially in laptop-friendly form factors) will mostly be limited to 512GB storage capacities. Higher capacities are possible, but they also tend to take up more physical space (and power). OWC managed to do the 960GB (1024GB) trick in the article linked above.

November 6, 2012/by Brandon Muramatsu

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Brandon Muramatsu builds connections at the intersection of learning, technology, innovation and scale. His work focuses on online and digital learning to improve teaching and learning with a focus on open education. He has been involved in the development of learning technologies and education technologies, curriculum and course development, open education / open educational resources and educational digital libraries over the last 25+ years. His work has a focus on engineering and STEM education, both nationally and internationally, and at all education levels.

Brandon Muramatsu leads the design and implementation of local, national and international strategic education initiatives at MIT for MIT Open Learning, and he consults on open education and educational innovation and technology.