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How much is it?

el_snark 5mo ago
They haven't released details but I was able to find a Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB drive for around 40,000 USD, as a guideline. So ... more than that.
- mikestorrent 5mo ago
  I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk the other day. I'm gonna guess these drives are literally a quarter million each
  - cyberax 5mo ago
    You're getting ripped off. NVMe SSDs are expensive, but not THAT expensive. A 4Tb drive should be around $1k even with some "enterprise" markup.
  - UltraSane 5mo ago
    $200/TB is reasonable. $300 if it is VERY fast. That is just robbery.
  - r_lee 5mo ago
    > I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk surely you don't actually think that's realistic pricing?
    - HDBaseT 5mo ago
      What is "realistic" in this context? It is very real, that is the price they quote. You can buy it through Dell at that price.
      - r_lee 5mo ago
        as in that it reflects market prices in any way. I feel like anybody who works in this field knows that Dell etc. rip off naive customers this way and you can either negotiate it back to reality or just buy 1 small drive and order your own separately
  - bluedino 5mo ago
    Various Dell prices from the US website: 3.84TB SSD SAS ISE, Read Intensive, up to 24Gbps 512e 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR, AG Drive Dell Price $8,825.13 /ea. 3.84TB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 1 DWPD Dell Price $7,893.91 /ea. 3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 with carrier Dell Price $6,596.39 /ea. I don't see a 'write intensive' option (I only looked around for a few minutes), but I can imagine them being 2-4x those prices.
- dlenski 5mo ago
  Okay, so that 122TB drive costs about $330/TB. I haven't bought a hard drive or an SSD in at least a decade (I get stuff for free, basically) but…that seems a bit high, right? Seems like well-rated consumer-level SSDs cost around $250 for 1TB right now. What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives?
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  - userbinator 5mo ago
    What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives? The word "enterprise".
  - bogometer 5mo ago
    I fondly remember when i could buy a well-rated consumer-level SSD for a lot less per TB...
    - jasomill 5mo ago
      I paid $300 each for my last two SSDs, 4 TB Samsung 990 Pros. They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon.
      - dlenski 5mo ago
        > They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon. The price graphs of these are wild, wow. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CHGT1KFJ https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CHGT1KFJ Looks like prices for NAND spiked at the end of last year, a couple of months behind DRAM. Happy not to be building or buying any new computers these days.
  - rbanffy 5mo ago
    > What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives? Spare capacity, mostly. That’s why they have higher endurance. If you want to double the endurance of a given drive, tell the controller to allocate twice as many spare blocks and report less capacity than you would otherwise. In this case, you are also paying a premium for the PCIe attachment instead of SAS, and a lot for price elasticity. You see, with drives like these you slash space and energy consumption in relation to HDDs by a large number, and that allows you to pay a premium for the device, because, at the end of its lifetime, it’ll have more than covered the cost difference in saved space and energy.
- ricardobeat 5mo ago
  Apparently $80k, not that terrible in comparison
ukuina 5mo ago
If you have to ask...
- 0-_-0 5mo ago
  I don't think he wants to buy one
baq 5mo ago
‘Contact us’
xbmcuser 5mo ago
4-5x times what it would have been if not for the demand from AI. According to my rough calculation 4-8tb ssd drives were going to reach parity with hdd this year
burnt-resistor 5mo ago
Likely $90k USD MSRP with a wholesale price around half that. Dell is getting first dibs.

How much is it?

They haven't released details but I was able to find a Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB drive for around 40,000 USD, as a guideline. So ... more than that.

mikestorrent 5mo ago
I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk the other day. I'm gonna guess these drives are literally a quarter million each
- cyberax 5mo ago
  You're getting ripped off. NVMe SSDs are expensive, but not THAT expensive. A 4Tb drive should be around $1k even with some "enterprise" markup.
- UltraSane 5mo ago
  $200/TB is reasonable. $300 if it is VERY fast. That is just robbery.
- r_lee 5mo ago
  > I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk surely you don't actually think that's realistic pricing?
  - HDBaseT 5mo ago
    What is "realistic" in this context? It is very real, that is the price they quote. You can buy it through Dell at that price.
    - r_lee 5mo ago
      as in that it reflects market prices in any way. I feel like anybody who works in this field knows that Dell etc. rip off naive customers this way and you can either negotiate it back to reality or just buy 1 small drive and order your own separately
- bluedino 5mo ago
  Various Dell prices from the US website: 3.84TB SSD SAS ISE, Read Intensive, up to 24Gbps 512e 2.5in with 3.5in HYB CARR, AG Drive Dell Price $8,825.13 /ea. 3.84TB SSD SATA Read Intensive 6Gbps 512e 2.5in Hot-plug AG Drive,3.5in HYB CARR, 1 DWPD Dell Price $7,893.91 /ea. 3.2TB Enterprise NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U.2 with carrier Dell Price $6,596.39 /ea. I don't see a 'write intensive' option (I only looked around for a few minutes), but I can imagine them being 2-4x those prices.
dlenski 5mo ago
Okay, so that 122TB drive costs about $330/TB. I haven't bought a hard drive or an SSD in at least a decade (I get stuff for free, basically) but…that seems a bit high, right? Seems like well-rated consumer-level SSDs cost around $250 for 1TB right now. What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives?
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- userbinator 5mo ago
  What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives? The word "enterprise".
- bogometer 5mo ago
  I fondly remember when i could buy a well-rated consumer-level SSD for a lot less per TB...
  - jasomill 5mo ago
    I paid $300 each for my last two SSDs, 4 TB Samsung 990 Pros. They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon.
    - dlenski 5mo ago
      > They’re currently selling for $942.72 on Amazon. The price graphs of these are wild, wow. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CHGT1KFJ https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CHGT1KFJ Looks like prices for NAND spiked at the end of last year, a couple of months behind DRAM. Happy not to be building or buying any new computers these days.
- rbanffy 5mo ago
  > What accounts for the premium price/TB of these extremely high capacity enterprise-targeted drives? Spare capacity, mostly. That’s why they have higher endurance. If you want to double the endurance of a given drive, tell the controller to allocate twice as many spare blocks and report less capacity than you would otherwise. In this case, you are also paying a premium for the PCIe attachment instead of SAS, and a lot for price elasticity. You see, with drives like these you slash space and energy consumption in relation to HDDs by a large number, and that allows you to pay a premium for the device, because, at the end of its lifetime, it’ll have more than covered the cost difference in saved space and energy.
ricardobeat 5mo ago
Apparently $80k, not that terrible in comparison

ukuina 5mo ago

If you have to ask...

0-_-0 5mo ago
I don't think he wants to buy one

baq 5mo ago

‘Contact us’

xbmcuser 5mo ago

4-5x times what it would have been if not for the demand from AI. According to my rough calculation 4-8tb ssd drives were going to reach parity with hdd this year

burnt-resistor 5mo ago

Likely $90k USD MSRP with a wholesale price around half that. Dell is getting first dibs.