For about 4hrs until one randomly decides it won't mount. Then another randomly gets really hot and stops working. And about 400 of them are actually 2GB cards that have been made to look like 512GB.
Idle thought: ~30 shipping containers full of 512GB microSD cards could store all of the world's data.https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1005721534533550081?s=19 …
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You use erasure coding, obviously.
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I wonder how you’d search something in those containers.
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Yes, that's what I was reminded of. I just re-ran the numbers with current microSD card densities.
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Take out pr0n and it fits in a small fishing boat... with space left for fish... and four guys... and beer...
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@whitequark@dakami I've always wanted a machine that can process a bucket of microSD cardsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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but once you have those 30 containers, the amount of data just doubled :o)
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Load in and load out times might make that solution take longer than wire transfer.
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1500 parallel readers/writers is plausible and gives 1tbps bandwidth.
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