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 takyon on Monday July 13 2020, @02:18PM (2 children)
Dead end technology:
Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB Gold Drives: EAMR HDDs Enter the Retail Channel [anandtech.com]
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)
Not sure if an ssd costing at least $1000 can really be considered "mainstream"
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 13 2020, @04:43PM
Price isn't official but it was said to be $900 [theverge.com]. $/TB for new models is usually higher but it settles down, so it will end up at $700 or something before long.
$100 for 2 TB would be a no-brainer.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @02:36PM (6 children)
Here's another comparison: consider that a 3.5" HDD weight approx 0.7kg - that's about 4.2154962e+26 protons and neutrons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @03:24PM (2 children)
What is that in LoCs?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @03:25PM
Commented or not commented? [wikipedia.org]
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday July 13 2020, @04:24PM
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 13 2020, @04:28PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @04:36PM (1 child)
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?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Monday July 13 2020, @08:42PM
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)
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday July 13 2020, @09:38PM
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)
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.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(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.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(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.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Monday July 13 2020, @10:34PM
Compared to the amazing SCSI Dart [google.com] by Newer Technologies.
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