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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 13 2020, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 13 2020, @02:18PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday July 13 2020, @02:18PM (#1020310) Journal

    Dead end technology:

    Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB Gold Drives: EAMR HDDs Enter the Retail Channel [anandtech.com]

    WD indicated in yesterday's announcement that qualification shipments of their 20TB Ultrastar DC host-managed SMR drive are in progress.

    Meanwhile, 8 TB is a "mainstream" SSD capacity now:

    Samsung Electronics Debuts Industry-Leading 8TB Consumer SSD, the 870 QVO [samsung.com]

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @02:38PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @02:38PM (#1020324)

      Not sure if an ssd costing at least $1000 can really be considered "mainstream"

  • (Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @02:36PM (6 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @02:36PM (#1020323) Journal

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

    Here's another comparison: consider that a 3.5" HDD weight approx 0.7kg - that's about 4.2154962e+26 protons and neutrons.

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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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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @04:28PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @04:28PM (#1020428)
      Which you can turn around and think that on average only around 500 billion sub-atomic particles participate in the storage of a single bit. Not even as many particles as the number of bits that the entire apparatus itself stores.
      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @04:36PM (1 child)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @04:36PM (#1020434) Journal

        on average only around 500 billion sub-atomic particles participate in the storage of a single bit

        No, that would be wrong.
        As in "Tell me, mr Anderson, what good is a bit stored in memory if you are unable to speak?"

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        • (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday July 13 2020, @08:42PM

          by krishnoid (1156) on Monday July 13 2020, @08:42PM (#1020666)

          USB port [imdb.com] access, maybe? I bet he eventually had to standardize on Micro-USB if he wanted to work in the EU.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by EvilSS on Monday July 13 2020, @03:28PM (1 child)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @03:28PM (#1020369)
    For what you get (enterprise solution, fully supported hardware with validated and supported configs on a variety of server platforms) it's not a horrible price. If you need that much SSD in a compact size, you probably already have a compelling business reason for it. $40K a pop is eye-watering for individuals or an SMB, but for a big IT shop, plopping 10 of those in a system and getting 1000TB of SSD in a 2U enclosure for $400K (plus enclosure/server cost), not really a huge deal if that's what you really need. And sure you could roll your own, but I imagine anyone getting these is looking at density over cost and no way you could get that density on your own.
    • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday July 13 2020, @09:38PM

      by richtopia (3160) on Monday July 13 2020, @09:38PM (#1020728) Homepage Journal

      I'm not sure why this is marked funny, I guess I don't get the humour.

      I agree it isn't terrible. Consumer SSD prices are around $100/TB currently. The drives advertised are $250/TB and $400/TB. So there is a premium for the storage density, but in the right application that can be justified.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @05:22PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @05:22PM (#1020489) Journal

    I remember when a 40 MB (not GB but Megabyte) drive was $35,000, and the disk pack for it was $1,500. (But the "cake tray" disk pack was removable.)

    I remember when a 48 K byte 8-bit computer cost a huge bundle of money.

    Now a Raspberry PI is cheap and vastly outclasses that ancient hardware.

    The price and capability of computers will get more favorable.

    Computers will always grow sufficient capacity and speed to enable the development of new languages like Java.

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    • (Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:27PM (2 children)

      by Muad'Dave (1413) on Tuesday July 14 2020, @12:27PM (#1021191)

      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)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 14 2020, @02:12PM (#1021237) Journal

        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.

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        • (Score: 2) by Muad'Dave on Tuesday July 14 2020, @02:31PM

          by Muad'Dave (1413) on Tuesday July 14 2020, @02:31PM (#1021252)

          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.

          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.

  • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday July 13 2020, @10:34PM

    by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 13 2020, @10:34PM (#1020786) Journal

    Compared to the amazing SCSI Dart [google.com] by Newer Technologies.


    Up to 128MB of non volatile random access SIMM storage (fully populated) with sub .5ms access and seek times, and barely cost more than the GDP of a moderately sized country.
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