168 tb Hard Drive Storage

[crazy^millman]

As for the speed of the new Destroyer SSD, Sabrent's preliminary tests show it can reach sequential read and write speeds in excess of 31 gigabytes per second – pretty close to the maximum speed of a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot. Normally, the $2,800 Apex X21 carrier board is rated for up to 30.5 gigabytes per second in sequential reads and 28.5 gigabytes per second in sequential writes. Random reads and writes are rated at 7.5 million IOPS and 6.2 million IOPS, respectively, but Sabrent has yet to provide any figures on that front.

I would like to try this out

[Jeff]

Does it need liquid nitrogen to keep it cool?

[crazy^millman]

Does it need liquid nitrogen to keep it cool?

The article doesn't say it does, but they do offer heat sinks for them. I would probably throw a fan array on it to keep it cool. With the Estimated $25k that is huge investment to see what that much hard drive space would give you for speed programming in Mastercam.

Link

[Brian]

I'm not enough of a PC techie to know, but once you've got all of your program (MasterCam, whatever) and database loaded in memory, how much disk I/O do you really do until you need to save?

I know that the switch from "regular" HDD's to SSD's gave a surprising boost in performance with the apps I use, but getting info into/back out of RAM is still quicker than disk access, yes? Somebody smarter please enlighten me here....!

[CNCAppsJames]

In terms of speed, order best I can recall goes L1, L2 and L3 CPU Cache, Bus Speed, RAM speed, then SSD speed. There's latency everywhere though. Hate that. But RAM and SSD gap is closing.

[crazy^millman]

I'm not enough of a PC techie to know, but once you've got all of your program (MasterCam, whatever) and database loaded in memory, how much disk I/O do you really do until you need to save?

I know that the switch from "regular" HDD's to SSD's gave a surprising boost in performance with the apps I use, but getting info into/back out of RAM is still quicker than disk access, yes? Somebody smarter please enlighten me here....!

Well I have customers who have difficult times opening some my files on their systems. I run 128gb of ram and RTX5000 16gb video card with M2 Samsung Pro Drives. My system is pushing 4 years old and still does well. Extremely disappointed in Samsung after the last firmware issue bricked one of my drives. Been back and forth with their tech team and still no replacement drive. Looks like this company makes a good drive so I am doing my research to see what direction do go after using Samsung for almost 15 years. If they are offering something like this then they understand why and where something like this for teraFLOPS computing is needed and headed. With petaFLOPS already the next step it will be interesting how Digital Twins and IOT 5.0 will be leveraged. 

teraFLOPS and petaFLOPS link 

Nerd out reading 

[Brian]

Hi @crazy^millman :

Thanks for the links-I'll check it out!

Boy, it's amazing to hear about that drive problem-yikes! Glad you recovered your data, at least!