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Hmm, no $/GB numbers.

As always, Newegg link or it doesn't exist :)

These drives aren't for retail sale. They go into various products. With the newest product they are offering 20 cents per GB max capacity 19.2PB and three years of support. See FlashBlade//E https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/01/pure-flashblade-e/

FlashBlade//E starts with 4PB of capacity

$800,000 starting price (estimate, but .20 per GB is probably for the max size)

This is a high-touch enterprise sales type product. It’s not for you.

So we all subsidize the cost eventually as consumers?

They say it's 3U. It's the size of a large toaster-oven. You can put that in your home, if you really wanted to. Will be probably the most expensive thing you own though, beside the home itself.

We're getting to the point of fitting (a lot of) the internet on a small portable black box a la the IT Crowd.

That's fine; call their enterprise sales line and be prepared to mortgage your house. The comment I was responding to was implying they were interested in a retail product.

I have an older gen m10 here at home. You can in fact run Pure at home, and doing so is costing me around $84/mo just to have it plugged in and consuming electricity. Not something I would recommend for most people but my lab VMs are _screaming_ fast.

My path into programming went through several "Moshe Yanai companies" (as we call them here). So, I see Pure more as a competition rather than something I'd use for my own stuff. I've used similar equipment from eg. Infinidat, but I'd struggle to think about what an individual person would possibly do with such a thing. Being a storage enthusiast in general, I was looking for a reason to convince my wife to spend time on building home NAS, but even in my wildest dreams I couldn't think about a use for this much space. Even though my wife is a researcher with a government org, the datasets she works with can typically fit on a USB stick... Even working on several projects at a time she doesn't have enough data to justify buying a dedicated enclosure for a bunch of disks :(

I guess, maybe if you are in video editing that would pay off? But what else is there that an individual may plausibly be doing that needs so much room?

I've been on calls w/ Moshe :D Infinidat is all about capacity, we tend to see them as B2D targets or for long term warm storage. Pure is more about performance. They have never shipped a device with spinning disks in them, so even their capacity series is all flash. The m series I'm using (now the X series) is designed for ultra low latency, even under heavy load I almost never see read or write times north of 1ms.

These are enterprise products ... pricing on call

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