WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SSD, 128GB RAM, 1300W PSU

Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by EdwardCoffin on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:10PM (#40034028)

Jim Gray talked about this idea in an ACM Queue interview in 2001 [1] calling it a TeraScale SneakerNet box:

Another option is to send whole computers. I’ve been sending NTFS disks (the Windows file system format), and not every Linux system can read NTFS. So lately I’m sending complete computers. We’re now into the 2-terabyte realm, so we can’t actually send a single disk; we need to send a bunch of disks. It’s convenient to send them packaged inside a metal box that just happens to have a processor in it. I know this sounds crazy—but you get an NFS or CIFS server and most people can just plug the thing into the wall and into the network and then copy the data.

[1] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=864078

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Re:WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SS... by bpye on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:35PM (#40034249)

> We’re now into the 2-terabyte realm, so we can’t actually send a single disk; we need to send a bunch of disks.

It always amuses me reading old articles about things like data storage. These days you can get a 2TB SD card.

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