Comment by MagnumOpus
9 years ago
> Hard drives with 100TB capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor were recently announced
That is an April Fools story.
(Of course you can still get a Synology DS2411+/DX1211 24-bay NAS combo for a few thousand bucks, but it will take up a lot of space under your desk and keep your legs toasty...)
Earlier this year, Seagate were showing off their 60 TB SSD[1] for release next year.
So 100 TB in a single drive isn't too far off.
EDIT: Toshiba is teasing a 100 TB SSD concept, potentially for 2018 [2]
[1] 11th August - http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/08/seagate-unveils-60t...
[2] 10th August - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/toshiba_100tb_qlc_ss...
60TB at 500Mb/s transfer will take +1 day to read the data. This is the problem of drinking the ocean through a straw. Even with SSD transfer rates, is still a problem at scale. Clusters give you no only capacity, but also multiplication factor for transfer rates.
Just use 24 of them interleaved/stripped and it will take just one hour for loading the data.
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Putting a 100TB of storage on your network isn't hard though. There are off-the-shelf NAS servers that big - eg http://www.ebuyer.com/671448-qnap-ts-ec2480u-rp-144tb-24-x-6...