How Much is One Petabyte of Storage?

[TechguyMaxC 516]

1 hour ago, zalox said:

A tech question.

What about TBW (degradation by bytes written) on a SSD drive?

SSD have limited writes. My 512GB Samsung Evo850 can "only" write 75TB before reach his limit.

If the proces is "download escenery">"erase escenery">"download another escenery"..lots of GB erased over a year...a lot of degradation.

If you choose to cache specific regions, these regions won't be deleted.  Only data streamed from MS servers will be deleted as the cache fills up.  It's a valid point though.  If you fly to new regions all the time you could eventually wear out an SSD.  

[TechguyMaxC 516]

5 minutes ago, goates said:

Might have to look into getting one of these to cache things:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/

They sometimes put old ones up for sale, if you happen to live nearby.

We had a few of boxes of an earlier revision of the storage pod at my workplace a number of years ago.  The design has come a long way since then, I could see this being a legitimate option for simulator businesses, or simmers with deep pockets and high demands.

[udidwht 133]

Steaming scenery.

[Dominique_K 10,149]

A very interesting thread, thank you guys,  but not very reassuring for those living at the end of an ADSL2 twisted pair.

[torium 207]

I think this should be fine:

"This Glass Disc Can Store 360 TB of Your Photos for 13.8 Billion Years"   

https://petapixel.com/2016/02/16/glass-disc-can-store-360-tb-photos-13-8-billion-years/