tst123Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs
cassettiCrazy 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.
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.
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.
WahotsGood lord, I remember our home PC having a 145gb drive, thereabouts.
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