> "As each vector takes 2 KB space, the minimum storage space for 100 million vectors is about 200 GB" Why are you not quantizing the vectors when you insert t

> "As each vector takes 2 KB space, the minimum storage space for 100 million vectors is about 200 GB" Why are you not quantizing the vectors when you insert them? Bolt [1] and Quicker-ADC [2] make 10-100x compression basically free for approximate search (and also get you ~100x compression roughly 10x faster querying within a partition....) [1] https://github.com/dblalock/bolt https://github.com/dblalock/bolt [2] https://github.com/technicolor-research/faiss-quickeradc https://github.com/technicolor-research/faiss-quickeradc