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I believe the rationale is that they are so much denser than they will compensate the price difference over the entire lifetime of the system. A 10 TB install i
by rbanffy 6mo ago
I believe the rationale is that they are so much denser than they will compensate the price difference over the entire lifetime of the system. A 10 TB install is a full rack otherwise and this is 5% of the space. Colocation for HFT tends to be expensive and using 5% of the space for the same amount of data might make sense.
- fancyfredbot 6mo agoYour average HFT algorithm will not have time to access storage at all, let alone 10 PB of it. Back testing an HFT algo could very plausibly need 10PB, but I don't see that being co-located with the exchange.
- rbanffy 6mo agoWhat would be good cases for data-heavy applications in expensive places?
- fancyfredbot 6mo agoI'm not sure but I suspect that people who've run out of space in an existing data centre will be willing to pay for increased density rather than relocating.
- rbanffy 6mo agoUnless latency is at a premium. This is why I thought about HFT.