256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by chukfinley2 » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 7:52 PM UTC

256TB SSD from Samsung
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Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by chukfinley2 » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 7:52 PM UTC

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Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by twerkmonsta » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:10 PM UTC

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by nmcela » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:13 PM UTC

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

I am 100.0% sure this is what someone has said for 256GB drives, 256MB drives, 256KB drives, and the same person will be saying it for 256YB drives.

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Post by onychomys » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

I do digital histology, and our (research) lab currently has 204TB of image files. They live in a data center, of course, but if my institution decided to spin us off as a company or something and we needed to move the data, it'd be way faster to download it to disk and upload it in the destination center. I'm not really sure we'd do it with just one giant drive instead of a whole lot of 1TB ones, but who knows.

(I'm currently working on sending 100TB of images to some colleagues at the NIH for a study, we're doing it about 500GB a night for the next year or however long it'll take just because there's no hurry on the data, so it's not just some academic thought exercise!)

Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by bguebert » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

nmcela wrote: post #4

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

I am 100.0% sure this is what someone has said for 256GB drives, 256MB drives, 256KB drives, and the same person will be saying it for 256YB drives.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody"

Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by amelius » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:17 PM UTC

nmcela wrote: post #4

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

I am 100.0% sure this is what someone has said for 256GB drives, 256MB drives, 256KB drives, and the same person will be saying it for 256YB drives.

Was this the same person who said that 640KB ought to be enough for anybody?

Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:19 PM UTC

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

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Re: 256TB SSD from Samsung

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Post by justsomehnguy » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:19 PM UTC

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

Compact and shock-proof storage for video data? Sure.

Other cases?

It can be a 1T in some use-cases, but DPWD is probably low.

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Post by jaggederest » Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 8:20 PM UTC

nmcela wrote: post #4

twerkmonsta wrote: post #3

Are there actual situations where you would even want this much data on a single drive?

I am 100.0% sure this is what someone has said for 256GB drives, 256MB drives, 256KB drives, and the same person will be saying it for 256YB drives.

I clearly remember getting an 80gb drive, circa 2001-2002 I think, and talking with my friends about how impossible it would be to ever fill.