If you're able to get enterprise ssds, you could get 16tb ssds... But no clue what minimum order sizes are like for that kind of thing. But of you wanted to use 16tb ssds instead of buying a house 100% down payment, that's an option probably.
My NAS device has 80TB of usable space (6x16TB, raid5). Equivalent would’ve cost tens of thousands of dollars in drives alone.
Once 16TB SSDs are even available I will probably start migrating them in, but for now mechanical drives it is.
WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 10 months ago
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A 16TB, a single one, right now is $1800.
As I said, as they become available (read: affordable) then I’ll use them. Until that point… mechanical drives have worked well for 50 years and are fine for me. I can accept a margin of problem, it’s the reason I use RAID.
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And this isn’t an enterprise thing. It’s my home NAS. For business things I just use AWS like any sensible person.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
A 4TB SATA SSD is 200 EUR. For 96 TB you would need 24 (probably less for 80TB usable). It would cost between 4k and 4.5k. Prices are going down fast.
netburnr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And a way to have that many drives connected at once, which means more cost.
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Ok, like 100 bucks for 16-18 SATA controllers, assuming the mobo comes with 6.
JGrffn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
5 20tb HDDs in raid5, for about 1.2-1.5k
WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 10 months ago
But how much is 5 100TB HDDs?
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
I have seen nowhere near 250-300 for 20TB disks in Europe. Maybe in the US the SSDs will also be cheaper…
JGrffn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t understand why more people don’t do this, but if you go to pcpartpicker.com, go to start a build, go to storage, and sort by price per gb, you’ll get all the info you need. I’ve purchased Seagate Exos X20 20TB drives for under $350 us dollars this year. I buy off Amazon US and ship to my country, Honduras. I believe ebay has them at $319 or something.
For reference, that’s around $0.016 usd/gb with some smaller drives going for as low as $0.011 usd/gb (you can get a 6tb Seagate enterprise drive for $64 us dollars), whereas the cheapest SSD you can get is still going to cost you at least twice to three times as much, at $0.037 usd/gb for the cheapest SSD on pcpartpicker, which is still a 2TB SSD for $75 us dollars (crucial p3 plus), amazing value for an SSD but still has a hard time competing with HDDs.