• Talos@lemmy.world
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    256TB? That’s huge! How about an affordable 8TB SSD though? I ended up going with a HDD as a secondary drive because it was like a quarter of the price of high capacity SSDs.

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        Yeah, I built my new PC around 2 months ago. Maybe they are cheaper elsewhere but here in Australia they are very expensive. :(

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        Well, 8TB might still not be cheap, but I bought a few of those Crucial 4TB drives for $165 when B&H had their sale. Trying them out for a Proxmox datastore.

        I still use spinning rust for long term storage.

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          Can’t wait for affordable 16tb SSDs to be available. That’s really the only time I can see myself switch from spinning rust. Also looking forward to the for the power saving benefits too. 10 years maybe ?

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      I recently paid €80 for a 1TB Samsung 990 M.2and €160 for 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 with half the speed. I feel like the prices are great. And I can easily spot the difference in my every day use compared to my 10 year old 5400rpm hdd that costed about the same back than.

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      For real. It’s like SSD manufacturers are in cahoots with HDD manufacturers to never step on their turf(capacity.)

      SSD manufacs keep chasing useless metrics like sequential write speed in consumer drives, when if they just chased capacity they could kill HDDs forever and we’d all be better off for it. Then again, i guess they’d also lose revenue since they don’t nearly die as much as HDDs, so i guess there’s that.

      Or…they could keep with their current trend but actually focus on metrics that matter. Like lower que depth operations which actually make an operating system feel amazing to use like Q1T1. The difference between even an Intel Optane 905p and some of the newest fastest gen4 SSDs currently on the market is still crazy large in terms of how much better the OS feels to use moment to moment for me.

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    Does this mean we will see 512GB internal phone storage becoming mainstream for low end phones?

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Samsung is at the Flash Memory Summit in California, showing off its latest wares, announcing breakthrough technologies, and discussing some incredible advances.

    Samsung is often the source of the biggest news stories of these events, and it hasn’t disappointed with its announcement of both a 256TB SSDs and unveiling of its PBSSD architecture, designed for peta-byte scale solutions.

    And, you guessed it, everything was being framed in the context of being reimagined for “the AI era.” Never worry, as Samsung is here to develop the latest technologies to cope with the “exponential growth of data and its many applications,” attendees were told.

    The interface revamp means the new drive is capable of “achieving twice the power efficiency of its predecessor,” says Samsung.

    In the quest for maximum data storage within the power and volume limits of a single-server rack, Samsung has created a 256TB SSD.

    With such a great capacity in a single device, Samsung and partners like Meta are aiming to make PBSSDs multi-user friendly.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    Crazy to think it was only about fifteen years ago the small Data-storage server reseller I worked for was selling their own in-house server racks - a whole 52U rack filled with Supermicro drive bays to store a petabyte of data was $300k and that was a steal of a deal at the time.

    Sure, that system was redundant and this is a single pbSSD, but still crazy to see how fast things are evolving

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      Nit pick, this is a 256TB SSD, so you’d need four to make a PB of raw space, and probably more than that to allow for RAID and effective space. PBSSD is their name for tech to enable PB scale arrays of such SSDs.

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        Yeah no doubt, a RAID would be more effective. But still a 256TB SSD is absolutely insane when you think about it, compared to where technology was 10 or 20 years ago.

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            I remember when my family’s home PC had a 500 MB hard drive.

            And before then at school the old comps had no hard drive, just rom for the OS and a disk drive

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            My first hard drive was 20 megabytes. That was considered hugely advanced… you couldn’t even boot from it, needed a boot floppy.

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          Hell, my first external drive was 120MB. That was to augment the storage of my 80GB internal drive.

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      Yes SKhynix owned Solidigm has been Developing really fast QLC Data Center Drives for sometime now.

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      Sure, if you’re fine with the tradeoffs. This is especially true if you’re storying secondary copies on them for processing purposes.