More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities ( www.techradar.com )

rustydrd , 2 months ago

My laptop has a 256GB SSD, and even this still feels plenty to me. Not sure what I'd even do with 500 times that much space.

Wizard_Pope , 2 months ago

Store 3 new AAA games?

whoisearth , 2 months ago

This gave me my first legit lol today thank you

melroy Admin , 2 months ago

don't exaggerate. Stores 2 AAA games.

Wizard_Pope , 2 months ago

Store one AAAA game. Ubisoft seems to have started making those.

eager_eagle , 2 months ago

when they add melee combat to skull and bones it'll become an AAAAA game!

Wizard_Pope , 2 months ago

Time for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA games fast approaches.

VindictiveJudge , 2 months ago

There's already AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.

DAMunzy , 2 months ago

Gotta have that swap space to install!

melroy Admin , 2 months ago

Which game?

rustydrd , 2 months ago

Should've added that I don't use this laptop for gaming. I also don't store multiple AAA games in parallel. But I get your point.

eager_eagle , 2 months ago

that's for enterprise use; also plenty of uses in a data-driven world to run predictive models on.

TwilightVulpine , 2 months ago

Games eat up my SSD at an alarming rate. I could see myself using several TB easily.

M500 , 2 months ago

My steam deck typically has one big game installed at a time. At this point, I just want to finish baldurs gate 3 so I can delete it and put on some other games.

coffeebiscuit , 2 months ago

I really need to clean up my picture library …

Illecors , 2 months ago

Simple things. Lemmy, for instance, has grown to ~60GB since June las year. And that's just the db and federated media since I don't really havr any uploads. The big instancea are easily into the hundreds od gigs - I know lemmy.ca had over 300GB of media alone last autumn.

On a more consumer level - high quality 4k media eats up storage pretty fast. The phones taking pictures and video in higher and higher quality - space requirements will only ever go up.

mox , 2 months ago

Lemmy federates media other than text?

Illecors , 2 months ago

Sort of. If you check the url of thumbnail images - they'll all be from your local instance.

Some images are also federated. Take this post, for example. The link is to lemmy.world, but the thumbnail and image itself are served by lemmy.cafe.

I've never really delved into what exactly decides whether to federate a particular bit of content or not, but there's definitely more than just text being stored.

mox , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Curious. That was not the case when I started using lemmy. It was page after page of thumbnails served by remote instances, showing up as empty frames since I block off-site media.

Since you mentioned it, though, I just checked: some of the images from remote posts are now showing up, hosted by my local instance.

This is an encouraging trend for users who care about privacy (and admins who don't want their servers bearing the load of remote users). I wonder if it's a configuration change that makes the difference, or a new feature in recent lemmy versions.

Illecors , 2 months ago

I know sdf had issues with media storage before, but that was late last year/early this one. There's noy been an update to lemmy in the week that you've joined.

Also - welcome aboard!

mox , 2 months ago

But there have been updates since I started using lemmy, and since I often ignore thumbnails, an update might have changed this behavior while I was on a previous instance without my noticing.

welcome aboard!

Thanks!

femboy_bird , 2 months ago

Clearly you are not a data hoarder

rustydrd , 2 months ago

Not at all, but I see that lots of Lemmy users are into self-hosting and like to set up their own media boxes, where I can see how large SSDs could come in handy.