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Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD

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Post by Coolbeanstoo »

porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

I'd like to find some good quality but slow nvmes, I dont need super high speed for media serving but getting a lot of storage (4x4tb/2x8tb ~) is much more expensive than hard drives. Itd be nice to have a silent home server

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porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

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Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD

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Post by aeyes »

porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

8TB: https://sabrent.com/products/sb-rktq-8tb

But your aren't going to like the price.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

hypeatei wrote: post #7
baruch wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe pricing (in quantity, these usually do not sell by single pieces) is around 6 cents a Gig so about $7680. I could very well be wrong though, it's been a while since I heard pricing of DC SSDs.

To be honest, that doesn't seem unreasonable. Obviously it's steep for a homelab project but I could see small-medium sized businesses buying that for on-prem needs.

It's much better than not unreasonable. If that price is accurate it's competitive with consumer drives. The big clouds would charge you 6 cents per gigabyte per quarter. Add on RAID and you still break even after four months.

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Post by lldb »

porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

I use the Intel P4510 (8TB) and have been super impressed with the performance. I also have some older WD SN200’s that are excellent MLC flash. You do need some active cooling for these types of drives such as in the path of a fan.

As for controller I’ve had good luck with this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2255800570197081.html

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Post by sumtechguy »

baruch wrote: post #5
ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

No price announced?

I believe pricing (in quantity, these usually do not sell by single pieces) is around 6 cents a Gig so about $7680. I could very well be wrong though, it's been a while since I heard pricing of DC SSDs.

the 128 also looks to be in proof of concept stage. The rest of the articles seem to be for consumer being 8/16TB SSD drives and 30TB spinning. With 64 being the the data center sizes for this set of announcements.

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Post by bornfreddy »

aeyes wrote: post #13
porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

8TB: https://sabrent.com/products/sb-rktq-8tb But your aren't going to like the price.

Spoiler alert - price is $800 (regular price $2000).

Re: WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD

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Post by milkshakes »

porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/

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Post by moffkalast »

milkshakes wrote: post #18
porphyra wrote: post #9

I really want a denser SSD to store my photo collection. My current small form factor PC has two NVME PCIe slots and no room for SATA drives. I have two 4 TB SSDs in there right now and it seems that consumer SSDs basically cap out at 4 TB. I would really love to get about 16 TB in my computer.

https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/

Funny.
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