[ffsm8]

We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data?

Or did you mean the "big data" crowd which thought 500GB was noteworthy? I don't think anyone took those serious, neither in 2010s nor now. That was always "small" data

[varispeed]

Most companies using term "big data" had datasets in TB region. One company I had a gig at had full Hadoop cluster setup and their whole dataset was 40GB. Their marketing had all the big data adjacent keywords over the brochures for clients.

[gf000]

That's a decent quality 3 hours movie :D

[0x457]

My rule of thumb was "can it fit in RAM on a server?" If it can, then it's not big data.

500GB is in the "fits" category.

[gf000]

You can quadruple that and could still fit in server RAM

[0x457]

Correct, and until then it won't be "big data"

[butlike]

> We have thumb drives that can store petabytes of data

We do?

[dylan604]

It was a question that you've edited out the punctuation. You're asking the exact same thing as the person you've replied

[ffsm8]

Please provide a link.

[BizarroLand]

You would need 4 and change of these 245tb Kioxias to hold 1 petabyte, and an entire server grade computer to run them.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/kioxia-unvei...

Or 250 of these ~$400 4tb flash drives and an insane number of dongles to connect them all:

https://www.slashgear.com/1847725/largest-usb-thumb-drive-hi...

[vunuxodo]

Plus one more for your parity drive.