Samsung unveiled WORLDS biggest HARD DRIVE in the MARKET

Samsung's solid state 16TB PM1633a is billed as the world's largest - but will cost you.

Get ready consumers. Samsung has unveiled a solid-state hard drive that stores 15.36 terabytes of data nearly 16TB and that is insane.

The 2.5-inch drive - the size used in conventional laptops - was unveiled at the Flash Memory Summit in California.

The PM1633a's capacity - which was presented as 16TB by Samsung but in fact totals 15.36TB - far outstrips recent 8TB and 10TB drives unveiled by Seagate and HGST.

At 1.5GB for a two-hour standard-definition movie (the approximate size given by the iTunes store), the hard drive could (in theory) store 10,240 two-hour movies. That's 853 days, or two years and four months.

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