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I can't remember where I saw it, but I think each of these high capacity drives is in well into the 15-25k price range.

So a petabyte will be $600-800k alone, plus a server with enough high-speed PCIe lanes to serve the 40+ drives, definitely $1m+

They are likely 200USD+ per TB, so one 250TB drive would be ~50,000USD.

There’s probably bulk pricing, but if you bought 40 drives separately thats 2,000,000USD in storage alone.

It's actually now at least 400 per tb.

The 64's are 25k, up from 6k a year ago. I have to imagine the 128's or 256's are at least 500/tb

More than you can afford cause you had to ask, ha

$500 on Facebook Marketplace in 20 years time.

You can't buy this stuff anymore. They are leased and rented through layers of middlemen.

> anymore

Could you ever buy it?

The 64's and 128's could be bought, and were not even totally unreasonable, price wise, at intro (IE <100/tb).

Concretely: a 64TB was like 6000 bucks last year. You could get them easily. It's now 25,000 for the same SSD.