That's a lot of data. The first harddrive I saw was a Tandy. 5 MB capacity, cost $1,000 and was as big as a pc itself. You had to issue a command to park the read heads before powering off lol. My father recently passed away, and he still has that thing along with his early tandy computers (TRS-80 in various iterations through the 4P). You were sooo 'leet in '83 if you had one.

https://amaus.net/static/S100/tandy/disk/Tandy%20TRS80%205MB...

Think about the incredible amount engineering involved to design and manufacture this new card - millions of lines of code when you consider all the design and validation tools used. What a great time to be alive!

Which means you can now run a ~1TB database (poorly) on a $35 raspberry pi by adding a $450 card. Adjusted for 1990 inflation, that $500 becomes $298, though obviously it's not a very practical setup for somebody who would actually need a 1TB database.

I get you’re joking, but I wouldn’t trust a RPi anywhere near this card because of all the card corruption the RPi has done.

That’s strange, never experienced any issues. Do you use proper power supply?

It’s arguably a very common problem. Just google “raspberry pi corruption”

likely atime updates and no graceful shutdown... all filesystems are subject to that behaviour, nothing particular to RPi.

There are well documented ways for making Sd cards reliable in embedded systems.

I remember buying a 1GB hd for 14.000 USD for editing audio. Luckily it was not my money. Sometimes in the early nineties.

Wasn't even that long ago (maybe 4-5 years) that my old company dropped $150k on a couple of fusionIO cards to support and Oracle DB that was 4TB. (I think that was 3 servers total, to get the standby, and the failover in another DC)