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I'm waiting for years for external 2.5" disks to go beyond 5 TB :-(

by zxspectrum1982 3y ago

filcuk 3y ago
There are 16TB 2.5" SSDs now, unless it must be mechanical.
- zxspectrum1982 3y ago
  What vendor? All I can find is 3.5" :-(
- kjkjadksj 3y ago
  What does that go for, price of a used car?
  - kotaKat 3y ago
    Dell sells a VisionTek 16TB for... $3800. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/visiontek-16tb-class-qlc-7mm-25-ssd/apd/ab329068/storage-drives-media https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/visiontek-16tb-class-qlc-7mm... (Rural problems: I tried to find a used car under $3800 on Craigslist here and there's less than 5 vehicles total 'by owner' and none of them drive on their own power. Maybe this is a good deal?)
    - kjkjadksj 3y ago
      Only a factor of 20 higher than the equivalent 16tb spinning rust. Not as bad as I expected to be honest.
      - BizarroLand 3y ago
        If it were PCIe it would be a screaming deal, but it's sata. That would take a hot minute to fill at a max 500 megs/sec.
- radicality 3y ago
  There are even ~62TB 2.5” ssds. I think there’s one from Solidigm/Intel.
  - metadat 3y ago
    Caveat: Only available if you have a budget on the order of $100-300k USD.
    - radicality 3y ago
      Seems like it’s around $8k. Which is obviously a lot, but not that bad when looking at $/GB cost. (61.4TB for $8k). https://www.cdw.com/product/solidigm-d5-p5336-61.44-tb-solid-state-drive-2.5-internal-u.2-pci-exp/7785193 https://www.cdw.com/product/solidigm-d5-p5336-61.44-tb-solid...
      - metadat 3y ago
        Wow that is pretty incredible! Thanks for the correction.
mmh0000 3y ago
What are you waiting for? Buy this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S Buy this, and stick this in that: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9
- fzzzy 3y ago
  That usb a to usb a cable is beyond cursed.
  - mmh0000 3y ago
    Okay. That's pretty funny! I didn't even notice, I just picked the first 2.5" enclosure Amazon showed me.
  - TeaDude 3y ago
    If only USB was peer to peer like FireWire. Then again, there'd probably be some trade-off to that.
    - jiehong 3y ago
      USB 4, being thunderbolt, actually allows this I think
      - belthesar 3y ago
        Thunderbolt is capable of doing this, but USB has had support for peer to peer and alternative client support for quite a while. USB OTG (On-The-Go), which allows a USB client device to also act as a host, has been around since the 2.0 spec. This is what lets USB devices like phones and tablets also connect to card readers, keyboards, and other USB devices. What Thunderbolt can do however that is quite magical, is operate as a point to point network interface. Driver support can be a bit dodgy, but it's totally feasible to build a 3 node compute cluster with point to point cluster node networking over Thunderbolt at 20 Gb/s.
  - accrual 3y ago
yread 3y ago
Get an a dual nvme enclosure and stick in two nvme 8TB drives. Or get two such enclosures and 4x 4TB drives (they are 4 times cheaper)

I'm waiting for years for external 2.5" disks to go beyond 5 TB :-(

filcuk 3y ago

There are 16TB 2.5" SSDs now, unless it must be mechanical.

zxspectrum1982 3y ago
What vendor? All I can find is 3.5" :-(
kjkjadksj 3y ago
What does that go for, price of a used car?
- kotaKat 3y ago
  Dell sells a VisionTek 16TB for... $3800. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/visiontek-16tb-class-qlc-7mm-25-ssd/apd/ab329068/storage-drives-media https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/visiontek-16tb-class-qlc-7mm... (Rural problems: I tried to find a used car under $3800 on Craigslist here and there's less than 5 vehicles total 'by owner' and none of them drive on their own power. Maybe this is a good deal?)
  - kjkjadksj 3y ago
    Only a factor of 20 higher than the equivalent 16tb spinning rust. Not as bad as I expected to be honest.
    - BizarroLand 3y ago
      If it were PCIe it would be a screaming deal, but it's sata. That would take a hot minute to fill at a max 500 megs/sec.
radicality 3y ago
There are even ~62TB 2.5” ssds. I think there’s one from Solidigm/Intel.
- metadat 3y ago
  Caveat: Only available if you have a budget on the order of $100-300k USD.
  - radicality 3y ago
    Seems like it’s around $8k. Which is obviously a lot, but not that bad when looking at $/GB cost. (61.4TB for $8k). https://www.cdw.com/product/solidigm-d5-p5336-61.44-tb-solid-state-drive-2.5-internal-u.2-pci-exp/7785193 https://www.cdw.com/product/solidigm-d5-p5336-61.44-tb-solid...
    - metadat 3y ago
      Wow that is pretty incredible! Thanks for the correction.

mmh0000 3y ago

What are you waiting for? Buy this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S Buy this, and stick this in that: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089C3TZL9

fzzzy 3y ago
That usb a to usb a cable is beyond cursed.
- mmh0000 3y ago
  Okay. That's pretty funny! I didn't even notice, I just picked the first 2.5" enclosure Amazon showed me.
- TeaDude 3y ago
  If only USB was peer to peer like FireWire. Then again, there'd probably be some trade-off to that.
  - jiehong 3y ago
    USB 4, being thunderbolt, actually allows this I think
    - belthesar 3y ago
      Thunderbolt is capable of doing this, but USB has had support for peer to peer and alternative client support for quite a while. USB OTG (On-The-Go), which allows a USB client device to also act as a host, has been around since the 2.0 spec. This is what lets USB devices like phones and tablets also connect to card readers, keyboards, and other USB devices. What Thunderbolt can do however that is quite magical, is operate as a point to point network interface. Driver support can be a bit dodgy, but it's totally feasible to build a 3 node compute cluster with point to point cluster node networking over Thunderbolt at 20 Gb/s.
- accrual 3y ago

yread 3y ago

Get an a dual nvme enclosure and stick in two nvme 8TB drives. Or get two such enclosures and 4x 4TB drives (they are 4 times cheaper)