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Thanks for sharing those articles. I found some of the specifics of price and size amusing in retrospect.

> With regard to solid-state storage, Ric noted only that 1Tb still costs a good $1000. So rotating media is likely to be with us for a while.

Here in 2023, 1 TB fast flash costs ~$50-100.

> What if you wanted to put together a 100Tb array on your own? They did it at Red Hat; the system involved four expansion shelves holding 64 2Tb drives. It cost over $30,000, and was, Ric said, a generally bad idea. Anybody wanting a big storage array will be well advised to just go out and buy one.

Nowadays, you can get 16 TB spinning rust disks for ~$15/TB, so a 96 TB array (without redundancy) would take 6 disks and cost $1500. If you wanted to use mirrors for speed and simple redundancy, you could build a full NAS that fits in 2U with a flash cache in front of 12 x 16 TB disks for well under $5000.