logoalt Hacker News

louwrentiusyesterday at 6:17 PM5 repliesview on HN

What would this cost?


Replies

geerlingguyyesterday at 6:55 PM

I can't remember where I saw it, but I think each of these high capacity drives is in well into the 15-25k price range.

So a petabyte will be $600-800k alone, plus a server with enough high-speed PCIe lanes to serve the 40+ drives, definitely $1m+

bracketfocusyesterday at 6:58 PM

They are likely 200USD+ per TB, so one 250TB drive would be ~50,000USD.

There’s probably bulk pricing, but if you bought 40 drives separately thats 2,000,000USD in storage alone.

show 1 reply
retiredyesterday at 9:35 PM

$500 on Facebook Marketplace in 20 years time.

cr125rideryesterday at 6:24 PM

More than you can afford cause you had to ask, ha

gosub100yesterday at 6:39 PM

You can't buy this stuff anymore. They are leased and rented through layers of middlemen.

show 1 reply