Friday, July 10th 2020
How Much for a 100 TB SSD, Sir? Nimbus Data Has Just Revealed the Answer
You may remember Nimbus Data's Exadrive, which was announced back in 2018 to claim the crown of world's densest SSD solution with a full 100 TB capacity crammed into the usual 3.5" form-factor and SATA connection as most (now) budget drives. At the time, pricing was available via a direct quote only. now, the company has changed that paradigm and is yelling straight at customers' wallets.
Cutting expectations short, and yet somehow supplanting them, Nimbus Data's Exadrives can be yours for the low, low price of $40,000 for a 100 TB version (a clean-looking $400 per TB). the 50 TB version is slightly saner when it comes to pricing: it only goes up to the $250 per TB barrier, costing a mundane $12,500. Of course, this is enterprise-grade MLC NAND providing read/write speeds rated at 500 & 460 MB/s, respectively, and up to 114,000/105,000 IOps reads/writes. Quick, fun napkin math right here: this 3.5" 100 TB density would be equivalent to no less than 69,444,444 3.5" floppy disks. Stack those floppies one on top of the other and you'd get a 229 km-high tower for your troubles. Oh how times have changed.
Source:
TechRadar
Cutting expectations short, and yet somehow supplanting them, Nimbus Data's Exadrives can be yours for the low, low price of $40,000 for a 100 TB version (a clean-looking $400 per TB). the 50 TB version is slightly saner when it comes to pricing: it only goes up to the $250 per TB barrier, costing a mundane $12,500. Of course, this is enterprise-grade MLC NAND providing read/write speeds rated at 500 & 460 MB/s, respectively, and up to 114,000/105,000 IOps reads/writes. Quick, fun napkin math right here: this 3.5" 100 TB density would be equivalent to no less than 69,444,444 3.5" floppy disks. Stack those floppies one on top of the other and you'd get a 229 km-high tower for your troubles. Oh how times have changed.
23 Comments on How Much for a 100 TB SSD, Sir? Nimbus Data Has Just Revealed the Answer
1 TB -> 0.1k dollar
hmm, i like the busynessmodel ....
still impressive
Even for SMB applications it makes sense, as something as simple as ditching a 2U NAS with extra LAN/WAN would already break you even in 10 years.
Do it on slightly larger scale, and your fancy SSDs may still be on warranty when they pay themselves off.
As my buddy Jensen used to say: "The more you buy..." you know the rest :D
It's supposedly about $1000 and supposedly slower than Sabrent's Rocket - but even if I bought the Sabrent Rocket M.2 8TB I'd be paying about $1800 with taxes.
I currently have five seperate 2TB Crucial MX 500 drives and M.2 Samsung in my laptops.
Buying the one 8TB would allow me to free up my 2TB drives for my other computers. The value is really in the consolidation.
$40,000 sounds like a lot to gamers, but they can't see the bigger picture.
A 100TB SSD's cost is NOTHING to a big business that will more than likely purchase it, use it as a business tax writeoff and find real value in the reduction of time and storage space needed for their business use.
It's the same logic as buying a $70,000 Mac PRO or any other 8K development PC. These things MAKE MORE MONEY THAN THEY COST.
Your favorite Youtubber with1 Million subscribers ain't hurting to buy one.
Nor is a development team. They may not even have to pay for it.
My Youtube income paid for all my computer equipment to the tune of $15,000. That's 2 Desktops and 2 laptops.
Still, the catch is for enterprise the flat purchase cost doesn't matter like it does in the consumer space. Enterprise hardware pays for itself. Usually pretty fast.
I have a 10tb external HD.