• ungoogleable@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

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

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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

        • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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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.