Samsung reportedly developing 250TB to 1PB nearline SSDs, enough for up to 8,000 GTA V installs
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steepleton@reddit
You ain’t getting it, it’s going straight to data center
reddit_tiger800@reddit
Robbers used to rob money trucks. It won't be long till they start robbing SSD trucks.
User-NetOfInter@reddit
For now.
reddit_equals_censor@reddit
i guess we gotta ask the non government destroyed memory cartel, if they'd give us any cheaper nand ever again...
i'm still waiting for nand to just be double the cost of spinning rust and available at 8 and 16 TB options with the same cost/TB as smaller versions.
spinning rust has been fixed in price roughly for many years now pretty much.
so maybe, maybe... the next good ssd pricing period will finally barely start poking the high capacity stomachable price range.
like 400 euros/us dollars for 8 TB high speed ssds and 800 euros for 16 TB ones.
nand cost wise none of this is a problem at all whatsoever as you probably know. hell memory and nand prices BEFORE the memory apocalypse were completely detached from production costs relative to r&d already, because again the cartel decides pricing and supply.
let's all hope for the bubble to burst, the world economy to NOT get completely destroyed, no bailouts for the billionaire scum evil companies and us having 400 euro pci-e 6 dram ssds with 8 TB tlc nand when am6 comes out ;) and 16 TB 800 euro ones.
one can dream... one can dream...
Sopel97@reddit
obviously
LAwLzaWU1A@reddit
Well it's not designed for consumers so of course it will be going to data centers.
It's going into an EDSFF design and even if we assumed a "dollar per GB" that is half that of the cheapest on pcpartpicker, it would still be 10 623 USD for the lowest capacity version, and 41 246 USD for the highest capacity one.
It would be ridiculous to even assume this is meant for anything but data centers.
nleksan@reddit
Realistically these will be closer to 2-4x the cost per GB on pcpartpicker. The 245gb micron drives are like 80k iirc
Canadian_Border_Czar@reddit
Soon they'll build these things inside the data centers. Just one assembly line that makes the boards, the cpus the gpus the storage the ram, then assembles it, pushes it into a new spot, plugs it on, smacks the side of it then moves on to the next one.
lmpcpedz@reddit
You know, 25 years ago they told me 1 TB card was not for me...
autogyrophilia@reddit
And how many do i need to fill a football field?
ryanvsrobots@reddit
One of these will probably cost as much as a football field.
arcanemachined@reddit
Well, there are about 53 SSDs per square dishwasher, so you'll need about 14,400 dishwashers worth of SSDs.
Smoking_Moose@reddit
The true measurement
Linux-tip-nips@reddit
it is 1.5 big macs tall, and half a twix thick
Strazdas1@reddit
But is it longer than a banana?
ThongBasin@reddit
It’s 3 apples tall like hello kitty
ComplexEntertainer13@reddit
Multiply by swimming pools and you should get fairly close.
NammeV@reddit
How many Linux ISOs is a better metric
thelastasslord@reddit
Gtav installs eh. Americans really need to switch to metric.
Fortenio@reddit
250TB will probably cost like $12,000 and 1PB like $88,500
trackdaybruh@reddit
For the 250TB, it’s Going to be way more than that
I believe SanDisk currently sells their 128TB eSSD for $25,000-$32,000
Canadian_Border_Czar@reddit
Does it last forever? Id consider 1 PB for a price if it doesnt just die in a decade. Dont know what the hell Id put on it though.
How big is a car if I want to download one?
Sopel97@reddit
As with any storage device, they are bound to fail for random reasons. If we exclude these <few% cases then these would last effectively your whole lifetime unless you have some extreme workloads.
Fortenio@reddit
I imagine these drives will be mostly used for commercial use so I expect them to be designed to last
Fortenio@reddit
Nothing lasts forever. I suppose most drives will survive for 10 years but small percentage won't.
DocMadCow@reddit
lol wild take but an 8TB SN8100 tells for $1,899 USD so you'd have to multiply that by 31.25X and that would assume 1) you are using consumer level NAND 2) you are using commonly used NAND sizes 3) you'd have consumer level pricing. So if it was just 31x it would be approx $60K and chances are it will be quite a bit more.
Fortenio@reddit
But I need
Trzlog@reddit
Will it be big enough for one GTA6 install?
Lincolns_Revenge@reddit
That's a problem for spring or fall 2027.
Strazdas1@reddit
So Autumn 2030 for the platform that matters.
UsernameIsTaken45@reddit
Just half, rest is dlc
Strazdas1@reddit
DLC? For GTA? They abandoned that idea when they got that billion revenue from shark cards.
Strazdas1@reddit
They will need to do what they did with GTA5 for Xbox 360 and make it simultaneously read from disk and disc to actually make it work.
pcgameshardware@reddit
I don’t even want to know how much this would cost, but at least I’d finally stop having to uninstall stuff every time a new game drops....
- Jacky
Nicholas-Steel@reddit
You can get some enterprise tier 26TB HDD's for a 6th the price of an SSD in current climate. I realize this is a far cry from 250TB but still...
pcgameshardware@reddit
For a home game library it’s obviously absurd, but the idea of never uninstalling anything is still tempting....
- Jacky
Nuck_Chorris_Stache@reddit
When will we be able to buy consumer SSDs bigger than 8TB without selling your kidney for it?
SATA3 is fine, it doesn't need to be blistering fast.
Nicholas-Steel@reddit
8TB TLC SSD's are already needing a kidney sale lol as they're currently around $4,000 AUD to buy. I bought some 4TB SSD's back in 2023 for $400 each.
Culbrelai@reddit
Hopefully they tricke down to consumers. Bought a 16tb Micron 9300 Pro for only $1000 pre-insanity. Can’t wait for bigger ssds
7LKY@reddit
starting price? 1 billion dollars
Intelligent_Top_328@reddit
It's for ai data centres.
Zatoichi80@reddit
Who cares? Will cost a small fortune, not for the average consumer anymore.
This hobby in its current form is more or less dead
Bert-63@reddit
And it will only cost $47.3 Trillion... Put your nose against the glass - it is as close as you'll ever get...
DT-Sodium@reddit
Is this a new weird American unit that will crash us another space probe?
Kyvalmaezar@reddit
Nah. Rockstar North does GTA, so one of those weird British ones still in use for some reason, like stone for weight.
YourVelourFog@reddit
Finally! Now I can download a car.
lmpcpedz@reddit
Don't encourage Elon now
hitsujiTMO@reddit
Why are we measuring things in GTA V installs? Isn't that an absolutely stupid metric consider a patch could come out tomorrow increasing the install size by 10%?
hollow_bridge@reddit
It's how it's always been done, in the past we measured with COD installs, mp3s, jpgs, even txt files.
justice_for_lachesis@reddit
I guess that's why they also said 250TB
Hacym@reddit
Isn't the the case with all news? Tomorrow Samsung could say they're actually making it 2PB. Things are fluid, that's life.
theunspillablebeans@reddit
It's designed to get more clicks from a mainstream audience (i.e. not the type of person that would usually be interested in this news) by relating it to something else they might be interested in, despite how silly the metric might be.
leonce89@reddit
Because gta is a popular game . They added a popular "buzz word" to get people to click or talk about it, like we're doing now.
jenny_905@reddit
That's nice.
Can't afford it.
braaibros@reddit
Cool. A game from like 12 years ago is now the standard
Frostsorrow@reddit
Or 1 Call of Duty update
Yojik_Vkarmane@reddit
Or one GTA VII install
IshTheFace@reddit
That's like an arbitrary equivalent of something.. ON STEROIDS!
gigglegenius@reddit
No one can afford that shit anyway
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