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1 million 8TB hard drives. you can probably put at least 100 of them in the single rack, which means 10.000 racks, put in 100x100 grid that means a single 300mx
by 988747 5y ago
1 million 8TB hard drives. you can probably put at least 100 of them in the single rack, which means 10.000 racks, put in 100x100 grid that means a single 300mx300m factory hall. Treat that as an upper bound, probably it is possible to package the drives more tightly.
- aaronax 5y agoYou can do 60-90 HDDs in 4U, so conservatively using 36U of a 42U rack that is 540-810 HDDs per rack. So it could be more like 1600 racks.