This 100TB SSD Costs $40,000 - HOLY $H!T

in my hand is 16 terabytes of mechanical storage and the crazy part is that's not even cutting edge wd just announced 18 and 20 terabyte hard drives both of which get absolutely correct buy this this is the 100 terabyte aptly named exadrive from nimbus data i have been waiting literally months to get my hands on the highest capacity ssd on the planet welcome to a very exciting installment of holy sh it's worth 40 000 us dollars but before that gotcha segway time ridge wallet wants to redefine the wallet with its compact frame and rfid blocking plates check out how they can help keep your wallet bulge down and use our offer code linus to save 10 and get free worldwide shipping how bad is my hair right now it's fine the first thing you'll notice about the extra drive dc series is the size it uses the same three and a half inch form factor as a typical desktop mechanical hard drive by comparison anything from a desktop ssd like this one all the way up to a high-capacity enterprise-grade ssd like this 7.68 terabyte one from micron uses the two and a half inch form factor which back in the days when mechanical drives ruled the roost was only really used for laptops it does this for a couple of reasons number one is that the extra drive is really considered by the manufacturer to be more of a competitor for hard drives than it is for you know high performance ssds like this pci express one over here from liquid reason number two is this is just great look at this they just need all that space this has to be one of the most densely packed products that i have ever seen it's nothing but floor-to-ceiling wall-to-wall nand flash inside the entire enclosure it's actually even heavy i mean most ssds like they kind of don't really weigh anything and if they do it's just because they're using like a a big thick chassis so that it feels quality or whatever this is not that far off the weight of an actual hard drive but i guess that's just what it takes to get a hundred terabytes of storage into a three and a half inch drive to put that capacity in the appropriate context for y'all okay like what's uh what's a pc game that takes up an unfathomable amount of storage call of duty warzone you could have 500 copies of warzone on this drive i mean not quite because it's going to be closer to like you know 90 terabytes by the time you actually formatted an account for overhead obviously i was being facetious just there if you actually had 100 terabytes of game data it would be way more economical to store it on a hard drive with a modestly sized solid-state cache sitting in front of it the thing is a single user could never need low latency access to such an enormous and random distribution of data that they would need the entire library to be stored on solid state guys you can only play one game at once right well except that time we played two games at once but still even two no justification for this so okay let's play around with it shall we i've actually got autodisc benchmark running right now and you can see these numbers are not that impressive yep at 512 bytes we're looking at nine megabytes of second writes and 13.81 megabytes of second reads and in fact getting all the way up to one two and four megabyte transfers we are still sitting in the 300 to 450 megabytes a second range so wow considering that this is an ssd that is not super fast but but but but it's really big so in the data center the advantages of an approach like this are very real the biggest one is unrivaled storage density a stornator xl like we used in our most recent petabyte project hold 60 of these standard three and a half inch drives now with the 16 terabyte drives that we're using today one of those units gives us about one petabyte of raw space in a 4u chassis that's about 0.75 petabytes of accessible space after accounting for raid redundancy and other zfs overhead by comparison one of those chassis full of these puppies gives us six petabytes of raw capacity and over five petabytes of usable capacity as long as we've got a cool 2.4 million dollars for the drives alone but don't let that price fool you into thinking that there's no market for these things increasing your storage density by 5 to 6x has some very real advantages starting with the fact that you will need fewer servers to plug them into now in the context of two and a half million dollars worth of drives the 10 grand or so that you might save per server box might not sound like a big advantage but this is the but wait there's more moment fewer servers also means less expensive data center rack space and less rack space means less cooling each of these sucks back about 8 watts while idle and 16 watts while active at 16 watts that's the reason we actually had this fan on here while we were running benchmarks possibly the biggest possible savings is that depending on what kind of software you're running enterprise licensing which can be thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per year is often handled on a per server or per cpu socket basis meaning that if you can consolidate your server count from five down to one over a span of five years or more those recurring costs could end up eating a lot of the savings that you would get by going with hard drives not to mention that the performance of an all ssd setup versus all hard drives is going to be in another league even if that's not that impressive for a modern ssd now as i mentioned before a lot of that ground could be made up with a higher speed ssd tier sitting in front of your spinning rust but if you're working with i don't know let's say a gigantic scientific data set where you have no way of predicting what's going to be accessed next and all ssd setup will have a latency advantage which can even help improve cpu utilization efficiency because the system will spend less time waiting around for a slow storage subsystem it can even help with reliability one of the scariest parts of any server maintenance project is rebuilding a failed or degraded drive in a raid array and this is especially true with mechanical drives these things have reached the point where their capacities are so high and the speeds that you can access them at are so low that the wear and tear on them during a rebuild increases the odds of a subsequent failure during the rebuild to the point where it is not trivial well an extra drive like any ssd has no moving parts it has higher random performance and it's got higher sustained speeds reducing the time for these risky operations so that all sounds great but there are definitely some gotchas and i mean aside from the price nimbus data here i've actually got their data sheet right here nimbus data boasts a five-year warranty with unlimited drive rights per day wow how on earth are they doing that unlimited my friends are they using some kind of special flash that that doesn't wear out is it magic ssds no no it's not so uh whatever this right here is a sata interface meaning that it's limited to six gigabit per second by contrast this right here is a liquid honey badger capable of over 50 times that speed and like that's not necessarily a bad thing here i mean the honey badger is a very different product it takes up a pci express 16x gen 4 slot and can't reach nearly the capacity that an extra drive can all it means is that practically speaking they can offer an unlimited right warranty on this thing because you cannot write data to it fast enough over that interface to wear out the 100 terabytes of nand in five years it actually takes over two days of continuous sequential data writing to it in order to fill it up now if you guys are anything like me this is the part of this video you were waiting for not all this theoretical monkey business and all that nonsense linus when are you gonna open the thing up and show us how it ticks right now now it's not strictly speaking part of our loan agreement for this drive to open it up but the way that i see it they had to know who they were dealing with okay so oh wow not all the screws are the same you better keep track of where those go yeah there's just something about unlimited power and besides isn't it just delightfully naughty to avoid the warranty on a 40 000 product like that ready oh interesting very interesting see how that's kind of glossy on there like that i thought that that might just be because there was some leftover residue from like a thermal pad or something but there isn't see look there's nothing on the underside of the enclosure so what this probably is this is a strategy i've seen before is a method of wiping off the markings from these chips and then they've actually glued the outside of it to make it more difficult to reverse engineer the product very clever nimbus data very clever indeed these look like standard sata connectors here and then some kind of power interface that i'm unfortunately not familiar with on each of these daughter boards requires quite a bit of stress on these posts here to pop these additional daughter boards up so okay we'll take off the second one each of these is 25 terabytes isn't that crazy um okay i don't like the stream that this is putting on this thing here is there a way to pop those posts out or something don't think of it in terms of how much money it's worth think of it in terms of the people need to see it just come on there we go okay so even though they're using what looks like um the same connector as like a u.2 nvme drive here you can actually see right on their pcb custom pin out do not insert sff 8639 cable slash backplane this is what splits out to this so here's all the sata interfaces for the individual 25 terabyte kind of slices now this one i'm pretty sure it would be fairly rude of me to show because compared to the slices this seems to be where the actual brains is but i'm gonna look at it yep we're looking at an altera fpga looks like some memory there is some very custom logic being done here that's a that's not a cheap processor i figured out how they assemble it brandon these posts they unscrew there's absolutely no reason whatsoever to uh put all that strain on them hey there it goes i don't remember what order they were in so hopefully that doesn't matter but yeah you just put the slicey slices on there 10 out of 10 slicey i mean imagine it okay adding 25 terabytes of storage to your computer is that easy you just do it four times and 100 terabytes and then i can just screw this in into the bottom there no problem i'm sweating right now from taking this thing apart see i play it off like i'm like yeah yeah you know whatever it's like yeah whatever it's like ssd or whatever but like i do not want to break this i'm pretty sure we're on the hook for it if i do all right moment of truth then hey there's a bunch of activity leds i didn't actually notice those before oh you know what i bet if i uh i bet if i put them together in the wrong order they probably need to at least be reformatted i don't know what kind of logic that fpga is programmed with though like i don't maybe it's smart enough to just put it back together it definitely don't see the capacity v is not accessible let's just give it a quick reboot i think this was right oh look at that we got a disk checking prompt it's showing up in disk management it's got the full capacity what if we just delete the volume huh okay unallocated new simple volume hey hey hold on this all this all looks pretty normal let's do a quick format here oh jake did warn me it takes a spicy minute to format the system cannot find the file specified uh that's not a great sign well i guess they're gonna have to sort out which order the things go on in bye boy do you want 50 bucks and to finally learn what making money with money means tradestation is one of the top brokers to do just that they make it easy because you can trade stocks anywhere with their award-winning mobile app and desktop app 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Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Keywords: ssd, solid state drive, datacenter, capacity, nvme, storage, big data, ai, nimbus data, high capacity, 100tb, sata, server, intel, amd, processing

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Length: 16min 11sec (971 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2020