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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.
You are probably expected to buy like 100+ of these at a time.
Biggest HDDs are like 28TB max atm?
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
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.
Given how many years its been since the first 100TB SSD released, anything short of 200TB seems kinda meh. Honestly kinda figured we'd be past the 400TB mark at this point, but I guess those sizes simply aren't that interesting from a business perspective even if just as a halo product not meant to actually sell much.
How expensive are they, $100,000 or maybe more?
Looks like 40k a pop
$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
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.
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
≈$35/TB or ≈3.4¢/GB Actually not a bad deal at all, consider the current SSD prices.
That's actually pretty reasonable.