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All of this makes sense to me, except I have no idea how they fit 100tb of capacity in a box that small. Aren't HDDs maxing out around 16TB these days? They co
by N_A_T_E 6y ago
All of this makes sense to me, except I have no idea how they fit 100tb of capacity in a box that small. Aren't HDDs maxing out around 16TB these days? They couldn't fit 6 drives in there.
- luhn 6y agoNot sure where you're seeing 100TB? > AWS Snowcone weighs 4.5 pounds and includes 8 terabytes of usable storage
- Dylan16807 6y agoWhich makes it interesting in the other direction. If this box is worth two hundred dollars a month and two thousand dollars upon loss, why not put in a drive twice as big for an extra $200?
- banana_giraffe 6y agoYou can fit 100tb in a Snowball, not the Snowcone, which maxes out at 8tb. Having dealt with a few Snowballs from time to time, there is zero doubt they have space in those things for 100tb. They're not small or lightweight devices. I'm super happy to see this device. It fills a niche a lot of my work falls into nicely.
- teraflop 6y agoIf they really wanted to fit 100TB in a box that size, they could probably do it with flash. It would just be ludicrously expensive.
- bithaze 6y agoI was curious about this too, but going back now to take a closer look at that screenshot, those are three other Snowball models listed in the table, not three more Snowcone models.