---
title: "Fixstars announces six-terabyte Solid State Drive"
description: "The world's first 6TB Solid State Drive (Fixstars SSD-6000M) is accepting orders and it will be shipped to customers in the United States in late July."
date: "2015-05-11"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Elise Bailey"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/bailey"
url: "https://futurism.com/fixstars-announces-six-terabyte-solid-state-drive"
categories:
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "computing"
---

# Fixstars announces six-terabyte Solid State Drive

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Fixstars.png>)

- The announcement on Thursday said it was the world's largest 2.5-inch SATA SSD. The Fixstars SSD-6000M will use 15nm flash memory packed into a 2.5″ form factor. Read speeds are expected to be up to 540MB/s and write speeds of up to 520MB/s for sequential access.
- SlashGear's JC Torres summed up what he found so special about the debut, namely, size. "Fixstars claims it just one upped the industry. At least for now. The 6 TB of its upcoming SSD-6000M might not sound that much in the face of 8 TB drives, but it has one thing no other SSD can claim: a 2.5-inch size.
- Fixstars envisions that its SSD-6000M will be utilized in cases where stable sequential data access is required, like in multimedia processing, medical imaging equipment, or big data analysis."