20 TB at that price range could brankrupt some small cloud providers. Selfhosting would be much easier without having to worry about space. IF the price stays the same, but we'll see.
I’d be interested what the wear-leveling and write-cycles look like. $250 for 20TB is half the current price of decent spinning rust, but if they’ll die in a year because they’re part of a Ceph cluster or ZFS array, that’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
Do I need a 20TB boot drive? No. Do I want it enough to pay $250? Yes, absolutely. I'm running 1TB now and I need to manage my space far more often than I'd like, despite the fact that I keep my multimedia on external mass storage. Also, sometimes the performance of that external HD really is a hindrance. I'd love to just have (almost) everything on my primary volume and never worry about it.
It's kind of weird how I have less internal storage today than I did 15 years ago. I mean, it's like 50 times faster, but still.
I'm not super-skeptical about the pricing. This stuff can't stay expensive forever, and 2027 is still a ways off.
Generally the more layers you add to an SSD the less robust it is. If this is real your data will be corrupt within a week.
That is exactly what ppl like you said when SLC came out and TLC came out and QLC came out...
Look back now.
