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from the how-long-would-it-take-to-do-backups? dept.
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.
(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:27PM (2 children)
We must be of a similar vintage. I remember the 5/40/80 MB 'washing machine' removable disks [google.com] from college and my first real job.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 14 2020, @02:12PM (1 child)
I got to use washing machine removable disks in college. On a minicomputer. At a small school. I was privileged by my third year to have exclusive access to the entire system late at night. I had the source code. I had learned assembler for that system. (The system had instructions such as: BLU, SEX, TOY) (branch and link unrestricted, sign exchange, transfer operand to Y)
In my first real job, I was using UCSD p-System Pascal on microcomputers (Apple and IBM PC) to build a specialized accounting system. In the last 40 years I've rewritten that system several times, and in different technology stacks. Back in the early Pascal days, with a 40 MB hard drive (Corvus Drive) we could easily sell our system against IBM System 36. It was the software. And the overall system price. The fact that you could choose different computers from different manufacturers. They were off the shelf. Easily serviceable. And we could provide total system service if desired. At a much lower price.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Tuesday July 14 2020, @02:31PM
Wow. We're brothers from different mothers. My minicomputer in college was a Concurrent (Perkin-Elmer) 3230. I had sysadmin privs and wrote the first email app for that OS. My intro classes were in Pascal as well. My first job was at Concurrent writing/maintaining the OS - a million lines of real-time, multi-processor assembler. Very cool.