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At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 13 2020, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-long-would-it-take-to-do-backups? dept.

martyb writes:

At 100TB, the world's biggest SSD gets an (eye-watering) price tag:

The Exadrive from Nimbus has held the world record for the biggest solid state drive in the world for more than two years now but until recently, its price was only available on demand.

The company has now put the prices of its 50TB and 100TB models (either SATA/SAS) online, with the 50TB edition (EDDCT020/EDDCS050) costing $12,500 ($250 per TB) while the 100TB version (EDDCT100/EDDCS100) retailing for $40,000 ($400 per TB).

In comparison, Samsung's 30.72TB monster, the MZILT30THMLA, retails for $8,860 ($288 per TB) while your cheapest SSD will retail for under $90, albeit with consumer grade QLC NAND.

[...] Both drives come in a 3.5-inch form factor rather than the more popular 2.5-inch one. They use enterprise-grade MLC 3D NAND rather than QLC, providing a sequential read/write speeds of up to 500/460MB/s and up to 114,000/105,000 IOps reads/writes.

[...] The ExaDrive range has a five year warranty, is guaranteed for unlimited drive writes per day during that period and has a mean time between failures of 2.5 million hours.

By comparison, consider that the current world population is about 7.8 billion people.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @03:24PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @03:24PM (#1020363)

    What is that in LoCs?

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @03:25PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:25PM (#1020365) Journal

    Commented or not commented? [wikipedia.org]

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday July 13 2020, @04:24PM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Monday July 13 2020, @04:24PM (#1020424) Journal
    The Library of Congress supposedly has 10 TB of text. That's the most quoted number but it doesn't seem that it actually comes from the Library itself, but rather from an estimate made by a couple of information scientists unaffiliated with the Library in 2000, when it had a collection of 26 million books. if you count all of the media, it's more like 3 PB [loc.gov] as of 2012, an estimate that came from the person in charge of repository development at the Library at the time. Today, it's probably much more. So 100 TB is either 10 LoCs or 0.03 LoC depending on how you define it.
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