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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.