Nimbus Data Developing 200 TB SSD, Could Be Revealed before the End of the Year

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In what sounds like a wet dream for data hoarders who have fantasized about storing their entire collections into a single, compact, whisper-quiet system, Nimbus Data CEO Thomas Isakobich has confirmed that his company is developing a new SSD with an incredible capacity that's set to blow even its pre-existing 100 TB solid-state drive out of the water.

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That's a lot of porn.

On a more serious note, I wonder how hot those things get when you hammer them a bit.
 
Drives of this capacity are meant for storage not speed of access. As a single user you'll be fine but I wouldn't put a transactional database on this.
1. For speed it would need to be NVME.
2. It would likely need some sort of active cooling.
3. Even in a home NAS (which I bet it will be priced crazy high so thsts out for a while.) Its going to struggle keeping up with more than a half dozen data streams.

So for home use a few users at most pulling and writing data over a network... you'll be fine.

For enterprise I would see it as bulk data for cold storage. An easy petabyre. Just nothing with big access demands. I suspect the data retrieval will be costly in time.
 
When are they coming up with truly long lasting storage? An agreement needs to be made on a 100y standard for media, file types and drives that read it. People are just blundering about, probaly losing all files at any moment. How does one change behavior, I don't know, but on top of it, there aint good enought anything to do really long term storage. This 200tb ssd is just and efficient way of losing a lot of data at once.
 
Uvilla said:
An agreement needs to be made on a 100y standard for media, file types and drives that read it.
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Not sure we are going to get any better than Edison in our lifetimes.

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Uvilla said:
When are they coming up with truly long lasting storage? An agreement needs to be made on a 100y standard for media, file types and drives that read it. People are just blundering about, probaly losing all files at any moment. How does one change behavior, I don't know, but on top of it, there aint good enought anything to do really long term storage. This 200tb ssd is just and efficient way of losing a lot of data at once.
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Any long lasting storage is going to need to be active redundant storage that is maintained, with failing devices removed and rebuilt.

Long term reliable passive storage is just a pipe-dream.

Everything fails over time, and the more complex (data dense) it gets the more likely it will be to fail, meaning that as time goes on active management of storage will only become more and more necessary.
 
Yeah, much like the 100TB SSD no one except multi million dollar organizations will have these in a data center somewhere.

With that being said, who care about this? Show me something I can actually you know, use in my desktop.
 
Zarathustra said:
Any long lasting storage is going to need to be active redundant storage that is maintained, with failing devices removed and rebuilt.

Long term reliable passive storage is just a pipe-dream.
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This.
 
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