More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES
as almost no one noticed this launch
That’s because we’re having trouble just getting food. A shiny new and expensive SSD isn’t even on the list at this point.
At that size they are certainly targeting enterprise and cloud servers. Cool that they are getting that big, but they probably cost as much as a house.
At that size they are certainly targeting enterprise and cloud servers
Dunno, have you seen the new Medal of Honor?
I haven’t. Was it just announced? I loved that series as a kid.
4.5k would be a pretty cheap house.
I think ur off by an order of magnitude (still ur gonna be hard pressed to find a house that cheap)
Ok, but the disk costs 4.5k
I read 128GB SSDs and thought “who cares”
impressive.
I care about affordable stuf not luxury .
These are not intended for you anyways. They are designed for servers.
It’s still interesting though and server hardware eventually makes it way down to normal people.
I’m holding out upgrading for the holographic nano dark matter drives that have infinite storage capacity and RAID data into 3 alternate universes for security.
Some high tech alien’s porn stash is embedded in the fabric of our universe and that’s the reason we exist.
Are we the porn? Some alien’s weird fetish?
If we are, the story’s gone to shit.
That’s their kink.
We are all lemon-stealing whores
This is why I feel like an interdimensional cumshot all the time.
Damn, Interdimensional cumshot sounds like an obscure metal band.
I may have just jizzed in my pants
Maybe the price will dry you off.
Too late
Realistically, a couple of 10TB drives would have me covered for like a decade at least. If these massive drives bring down the price of much smaller ones, I’m a happy boy.
Yeah I have an old pc. Built it 6 or 7 years ago with a 1080 FTW2 card that is still going strong. For storage I have a wd 1tb drive and a 250gb ssd with windows on it. I’ve been fine for the most part since I don’t watch 4k tv and only really play older games anymore.
That’s some nice density you got there. While you’re at it…
Can I get a 12.8TB drive 1/10th the physical size (m.2 2230) and has a steady transfer rate of 2.4GBs that costs <$200 dollhairs? Pretty please 🙏
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There there. It’s okay.
That’s they’re they’re.
Unless you’re using a NUC or similar, M.2 is the worst form factor - and consumer grade drives are all shit. If you’re in the market for storage I’d recommend looking at used enterprise U.2 drives in the 0.5-1 DWPD range. Adapters (PCIe or M.2 to U.2) are super cheap.
Edit: 12.8TB is gonna be a stretch, obviously, but even Solidigm TLC drives are quite a bit better than any consumer grade drives and I’ve seen some of the 7TB models go for surprisingly cheap.
I am using NUCs.
How expensive are they, $100,000 or maybe more?
$4.5k from a quick search.
Edit: I HAVE NO CLUE WHERE THAT NUMBER CAME FROM LAST NIGHT
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-128tb-petabyte-storage
This states that a 32tb ssd costs roughly $7000
≈$35/TB or ≈3.4¢/GB Actually not a bad deal at all, consider the current SSD prices.
That’s actually pretty reasonable.
I’m going to need a source for that, as it’s well below even regular consumer SSDs.
Like I said, quick search, and unfortunately, I doubt anyone else looked it up. Soooo here is an article that says a 32tb cards goes for about $7000.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-128tb-petabyte-storage
Hmm. As a personal user, 9k to not worry about storage space or redundancy, for at least a decade seems like a pretty great deal.
Looks like 40k a pop
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Still can’t afford it.
Do you think the normal consumer would care? All that matters is for SSD to become as cheap or cheaper than HDDs or nothing
Capacity that high is for servers.
Or porn
Servers full of porn
Its pretty cool. Number go up is exciting.
Bigger number better
I am coming from Incremental Social, but I agree.
My laptop has a 256GB SSD, and even this still feels plenty to me. Not sure what I’d even do with 500 times that much space.
Store 3 new AAA games?
don’t exaggerate. Stores 2 AAA games.
Store one AAAA game. Ubisoft seems to have started making those.
when they add melee combat to skull and bones it’ll become an AAAAA game!
Time for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA games fast approaches.
There’s already AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.
Which game?
Gotta have that swap space to install!
This gave me my first legit lol today thank you
Should’ve added that I don’t use this laptop for gaming. I also don’t store multiple AAA games in parallel. But I get your point.
Games eat up my SSD at an alarming rate. I could see myself using several TB easily.
My steam deck typically has one big game installed at a time. At this point, I just want to finish baldurs gate 3 so I can delete it and put on some other games.
Simple things. Lemmy, for instance, has grown to ~60GB since June las year. And that’s just the db and federated media since I don’t really havr any uploads. The big instancea are easily into the hundreds od gigs - I know lemmy.ca had over 300GB of media alone last autumn.
On a more consumer level - high quality 4k media eats up storage pretty fast. The phones taking pictures and video in higher and higher quality - space requirements will only ever go up.
Lemmy federates media other than text?
Sort of. If you check the url of thumbnail images - they’ll all be from your local instance.
Some images are also federated. Take this post, for example. The link is to lemmy.world, but the thumbnail and image itself are served by lemmy.cafe.
I’ve never really delved into what exactly decides whether to federate a particular bit of content or not, but there’s definitely more than just text being stored.
Curious. That was not the case when I started using lemmy. It was page after page of thumbnails served by remote instances, showing up as empty frames since I block off-site media.
Since you mentioned it, though, I just checked: some of the images from remote posts are now showing up, hosted by my local instance.
This is an encouraging trend for users who care about privacy (and admins who don’t want their servers bearing the load of remote users). I wonder if it’s a configuration change that makes the difference, or a new feature in recent lemmy versions.
I know sdf had issues with media storage before, but that was late last year/early this one. There’s noy been an update to lemmy in the week that you’ve joined.
Also - welcome aboard!
But there have been updates since I started using lemmy, and since I often ignore thumbnails, an update might have changed this behavior while I was on a previous instance without my noticing.
welcome aboard!
Thanks!
that’s for enterprise use; also plenty of uses in a data-driven world to run predictive models on.
I really need to clean up my picture library …
Clearly you are not a data hoarder
Not at all, but I see that lots of Lemmy users are into self-hosting and like to set up their own media boxes, where I can see how large SSDs could come in handy.
What’s the biggest HDD out there? I mean at sizes this big it’s a lot of data to lose in one go if it dies. Even if you have backups or whatever that’s a lot to have to restore.
Are we including magnetic tape?
Looks like they hit 580 TB a few years ago: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fujifilm-and-ibm-set-world-record-with-580tb-magnetic-tapes
I like 8TB drives for media. I know the rules of safe backup say you should have 3 copies, but I just have another 8TB drive for each one that’s in use and I do a sync every few months. The backup drives, when not hooked up to sync for backup, sit safely in anti static bags inside the boxes they came in, in a file cabinet drawer.
Who sells 80TB HDDs? None on the market that I know of.
I’ve seen SSDs hit 100TB, but those are $40k+. And more “reasonable” options like 64TB for $10k or so.
HDDs just reached 30TB, but I don’t think those are widely available yet. 24TB is the biggest you can expect to see for sale.
Ok so I’m wondering WTF he’s talking about.
Did he mean 8TB maybe?
I meant 8 TB
You are probably expected to buy like 100+ of these at a time.
Biggest HDDs are like 28TB max atm?
Man I has to read that 4 times before it registered. Fucking he’ll shits nuts
Call me when they somehow fit this on an SD card in another 10 years
Whatcha talking bout? There are many ads for 128 Tb drive on TEMU and Ali Express! Like for cereal man, they show proper sizes and everything!
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/s if ya didn’t get it
I read it as 128GB. Then I was like, ohhhhhhhh. Sweet!
how much?
40k
That’s cool and all. How many levels per cell? Can I have it in SLC? No? Ok then I’m good.
