Laptop with 64GB DDR4 ram and 5TB SSD drive. Would you buy one?

I know I would. But what about you guys? Would you ever buy a system (or need a system) with this much power on it as a laptop whether it was for games, development, video editing, DJ'ing, or anything else?

Extremely powerful laptop with stuff you won't find at Frys or Best Buy.

 

I would purchase one tomorrow, all I am lacking is the money!
Had to spend the last few pennies on the rolls royce old boy!

 

I am a moderate and conservative when it comes to memory requirements since my laptop is for official use only. That means I cannot install any software that is not authorized like picture editor or video editing software. But I am amused with the title of this thread that says 5TB of SSD. Is there an SSD that large? And is the SSD already reliable when it comes to data integrity and dependability?

 

The more the merrier. If I could physically do that with my laptop, then why not. It's more resources to enhance performance and the end result is to put more money into my pocket.

I run multiple operating systems that need a minimum of 1gb of ram to operate efficiently. If I can give each instance 4gb of ram each, then that's great. Why limit my self to "just enough". Id rather over shoot it then to come up short and regret not getting the upgrade in the first place.

 

Yes, there is indeed. Currently, the largest (commerical) SSD drive is a 16TB, but it costs over $100,000 USD. The 5TB SSD on the Eurocom laptop is about $6,000 or so.

Also, the ram is about $800 for the base 16GB DDR4 (included with the price), but it can go up to 64GB and costs around $2,400 for that option. So the highest option for this laptop costs as much as a fancy car or a small house

I would probably get the car or the house first with that money, just to be on the safe side.

 

Ironically, you can usually save money by making your own RAID storage array from a multidrive enclosure to have that amount of storage much cheaper (but from distributed drives in smaller sizes).

However, there are companies that are charging a fortune for those, too. As it turns out, the 16TB SSD drive from Samsung with 16GB of ram buffer built-in may be more than $100,000 commercially (perhaps just OEM price is 100k?) because the enclosures which are often times half the cost are going for about $60,000 to $110,000 on up:

This 11TB drive enclosure for the industry costs 116k but the prices are steadily starting to come down. There's now rival alternatives that are under $10,000 and the 3TB drives are around $5,000 each right now. So if you put 15 of those together in an enclosure, you could have that for around $30,000 today with a budget enclosure instead of $100,000 with the same type of SSD drives from the same manufacturer, just in a RAID array and/or USB or NAS arrangement.

When they start mass producing it more or they start to release a 24TB or 32TB drive, you'll see the price on the 16TB drive be $50,000 or less rather quickly. In a few years, it should only cost about $2,000 or so as the market keeps on moving and technology trends continue.

Seeing those types of sizes in a 3.5 or 2.5" SSD laptop as a single drive may take much longer, though. The more the market demand for it, the sooner it would be ready.

 

Gee, that huge 16TB SSD costs a fortune literally. It is even more expensive than a laptop, huh. Even that 5TB which is $6,000 can buy me a second hand car. I am still in the research phase about that SSD because it really caught my fancy - it has no moving parts unlike the HDD so the wear and tear is almost nil. But I think the cost of the SSD will go down in 5 years or so.

 

Well, if I could get a laptop like this for cheap I wouldn't say no but if I actually had to pay good money for it I wouldn't even consider it. I'm doing fine with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, I don't even know what I would do with 64GB of DDR4 RAM, it would get wasted. That 5TB SSD looks juicy though.