pb hard drive on sale yet in the usa an uk where can get it from

[kevin shepherd]

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  the question why it on sale now if not where vcan you  a real one and how much

   
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1 PB external hard disk

[boey]

PB as in Petabyte? Hard Drives go up to like 15TB right now lmao, I think I read about a 16TB 3.5" SSD tho

[flibberdipper]

I extremely highly doubt there is an external drive anywhere near 1PB (unless it's the size of a literal rackmount server). Closest you could get to that storage without something weighing as much as a middle schooler would be tape, and I'm pretty sure the highest capacity single cassette is something like 300TB.

[mariushm]

No such thing.

As others have told you, probably the highest capacity hard drive you can buy is 14..16 TB.  So you could have multiple hard drives (let's say 100) in a couple of 2-3U rackmount servers connected together to for a 1 PB hard drive.

 

In the realm of SSDs probably the highest capacity drive you can buy is 100 TB. NimbusData claims to make one... see : https://nimbusdata.com/press/nimbus-data-launches-worlds-largest-solid-state-drive-100-terabytes-power-data-driven-innovation/

 

Seagate sells (or used to sell) a 60 TB one for probably $30-50k ... so if you have money to waste I suppose you could buy 16 of these and install them in a tiny mATX case with a 16 port SATA/SAS controller and you got yourself a 960 TB SSD ... for around $200k .... and would be relatively portable.

 

These are in 3.5" format (like mechanical drives) so as long as you have a case that can fit 10-20 of these it would be portable, since they don't weight as much as mechanical drives.

 

Another company called Viking used to make 50 TB SSDs ... Samsung also made some 16 TB SSDs, i think the product name was PM1633a and used to cost around $11k