A"I" companies want to store petabytes of “good” training data
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Are now? Haven’t they been using flash first?
Hard drives suck for that work load. Their seek times are huge, their throughput is awful, and they’re worse storage density than HDDs. You can fit 24 2.5" ssds into a 2u server. 16TB in a 2.5" > 24TB in 3.5" SSDs were first to skyrocket in price vs HDDs.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exabytes. Petabytes are easily surpassed by a lot of companies these days.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. AI companies have huge storage requirements for training data. Flash storage is not cost efficient for mass storage quantities.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
For massive companies space is as costly as the price of the storage. Especially these AI companies don’t care much about the price of things.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Something tells me you’ve never worked for a massive company.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
These aren’t massive companies. They’re startups. (and some branches inside of massive companies acting like startups)