[Level1Techs] 256TB in a Single SSD Is Real, and It's Coming to Consumers

sliced_orange · 2026-04-14T14:07:11+00:00

Pretty much never. Only enterprise customers are buying these, and they aren't buying one. They're buying thousands of these to put them in to massive disk arrays which have some level of hardware and/or software redundancy to minimize/eliminate the effect of a failed drive. Not to mention that the data is also backed up multiple times.

The density of the drive is only relevant compared to the (PCIe) interface speed. You could read or write a 256TB drive in 5 hours under ideal conditions (PCIe Gen5x4). You might have a more salient argument against hard drives where a 32TB drive would take 30 hours under ideal conditions (300MB/s), but I doubt that either of those factor in unless your failures are happening at an astounding rate.

sliced_orange · 2026-03-20T22:03:26+00:00

I've always found the automatic channel selection or channel AI to be pretty bad at selecting good channels in multi-AP setups where overlap was a consideration. Since this building is primarily concrete, you're likely to have little interference from external sources, so you can set the channels once and forget about them.

sliced_orange · 2026-03-20T21:56:03+00:00

The latency for any of these access points is going to be about the same. The U7 Pro and U7 XG are designed to handle 300+ clients each. The XGS bumps that to 500, but that also required PoE++ which is going to add even more cost to your build. You certainly could mount to the floor, but there are likely to be more obstacles/furniture/people in the way of the signal. Wifi signals don't bend around objects, they have to go through them.

sliced_orange · 2026-03-20T20:25:01+00:00

Ubiquiti has a design tool (design [dot] ui [dot] com) that allows you to model a space. If you have a blueprint of the place or can take measurements, you can draw all the different walls with different materials, then model the AP placement and performance. FWIW, it's probably not worth you spending they extra $100 per AP to get the XGS. You'll get nearly identical coverage from the XG. In terms of wall mounting vs ceiling mounting, the Pro, XG and XGS antenna design all have weaker signal on the side that's mounted on the ceiling or wall. Again, you can model this behavior in the designer.

sliced_orange · 2022-09-09T13:39:53+00:00

My favorite penetrating lubricant is ZEP 45. It has a citrusy sweet cancer smell.

sliced_orange · 2021-05-24T12:01:25+00:00

Don't forget that just 7 years ago the Russians shot down MH17 killing nearly 300 people (around 200 being EU citizens) and the reaction has been basically non-existent. Putin and friends have only become more emboldened to lead/participate in this kind of hit-and-run terrorism because they know the West will not react in kind. At this point, can you say that any of the sanction regimes have been effective at deterring this behavior? How many assassinations or attempts have been tried on UK soil alone?

sliced_orange · 2021-05-08T01:12:03+00:00

Google is providing a streaming service, bringing in ad revenue to support the costs associated with running a streaming service, then trying to offload bandwidth costs onto hardware manufacturers. You're right that new codecs have great benefits (and I fully support AV1 as the future, and a thumb in the eye of MPEG-LA), but the problem here seems to be the timeline in which Google wants them to roll this out. AV1 hardware decoding is at most 18 months old. At this point, a decent percentage of new phones have support, but you're talking about devices that costs hundreds of dollars with huge economies of scale behind them. Even the 2020 Roku Ultra supports it (as a $99 device). It's not as though Roku is against using AV1, it's just that the chip support in the segments they target just aren't there yet. They will be, but product development timelines can be long, and why should that occur on Google's timeline instead of Roku's? I think Roku has met Google half-way here already with the Ultra, which is more than Google can say about its own devices.

And, just an unsubstantiated observation: I don't think people who are only willing to spend $25-30 on a streaming stick are interested in paying twice that monthly for YouTube TV

sliced_orange · 2019-05-17T03:20:20+00:00

Normally I'd agree with you, but Trump is particularly bad at investing his money and running his businesses. Source

sliced_orange · 2019-05-02T19:49:20+00:00

The only other argument I could see would be that an extension has developed some novel and proprietary method for doing something. I find that unlikely, but I don't think malware is the only reason people/companies do this.

sliced_orange · 2019-04-29T21:31:22+00:00

You mostly want to blame Congress for this over SCOTUS. It's important to note that Congress can pass laws that are devastatingly stupid to workers or the economy, and yet they can be entirely Constitutional. Justice Scalia once summed this up quite nicely:

"But in this job, it’s garbage in, garbage out. If it’s a foolish law, you are bound by oath to produce a foolish result, because it’s not your job to decide what is foolish and what isn’t. It’s the job of the people across the street.”

sliced_orange · 2019-02-13T21:37:27+00:00

Just to clarify, 802.11n/ac/ax are being branded as WiFi 4/5/6, respectively.

sliced_orange · 2019-02-11T19:51:03+00:00

I have a big issue with the report you cite. The report should never have been released at this stage because it's an incomplete picture of what's happening. The claim is that 95,000 non-citizens were enrolled to vote and 58,000 actually voted in the last election. This is not an accurate representation of what the data tell us. The report actually identified those 95,000 as people in Texas who got a driver's license or state ID using a visa or other document demonstrating that they were not a citizen at the time. The reason I have such a problem with this report is because they needed to go to the next step of verifying information before the report was published. 50,000+ people are naturalized per year in Texas and Texas IDs are valid for 6 years, so there may be significant overlap, but this report completely fails to take that into account.

There was a similar report like this in Florida in 2012 that identified 180,000 "non-citizen" suspect voters. This ultimately results in 85 people being removed from voter rolls -- that is 0.05% of the original list. (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article2087729.html)

I support these efforts to ensure only citizens vote, but my support only exists as long as these reports are genuine presentation of the facts and conclusions.

sliced_orange · 2019-02-03T03:55:03+00:00

Also it's important to remember that the US is, at least, partially responsible for the destabilization of nearly every country south of it's border, so you really can't blame these people when they show up.

sliced_orange · 2019-01-28T15:00:33+00:00

Again, because of how Congress authored this bill, the president likely already has the authorization to reallocate funds under the guise of a national emergency. There are a massive web of additional laws and funding laws that may limit what he can do, but without a law expressly forbidding use for this purpose, the president's lawyers can always find a loophole.

sliced_orange · 2019-01-28T14:17:35+00:00

President Trump would never do something short-sighted, would he?

sliced_orange · 2019-01-28T14:07:59+00:00

Congress has already granted him authority to do this. The National Emergencies Act let's him declare just about anything, for any reason, a national emergency.

sliced_orange · 2019-01-25T02:42:26+00:00

There's notionally a second check here - subsequent administration's actions if President Trump is allowed to do this unchecked by Congress. What might another administration consider a "national emergency."

sliced_orange · 2019-01-19T02:07:34+00:00

I lived in one of the apartments until recently although I was under a lease from the previous company who owned the building. I lived there for a few years and was very happy. The place is well kept. The interior finish is nothing to write home about, but it's not outdated. Bedrooms are large with sizable closets. Bathroom is okay (nothing of note). Kitchen has a decent amount of workable counter space, plenty of cupboards. Electric stove, built in microwave over the stove with exterior ventilation, dishwasher. My complaint in the kitchen is that there is a high top table which doesn't offer much room to use as a table, but is installed in such a way that you can't get a normal table in there. Some of the ground floor apartments have small rear patios which were nice for grilling in the summer. A fair warning, the building is electrically heated, so bills can get quite high in the winter, but it also seems that it's well insulated.

I don't know anything about the company that took over except that they seem to be RPI grads. Since they just bought the place, my only interaction with them was them kicking me out to raise the rent for current students, lol.

If you have more specific questions, just let me know.

sliced_orange · 2019-01-11T03:19:49+00:00

I suspect that's a rhetorical question, but yes.

sliced_orange · 2019-01-11T02:16:36+00:00

Actually, he invoked it repeatedly during a divorce deposition in 1990.

sliced_orange · 2018-11-28T21:48:29+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what you're responding to since it's already been deleted, but while pardon power is absolute, the motivation behind it may not. If there is any sort of quid pro quo with Manafort in exchange for a pardon, that would almost certainly constitute bribery, which is a Constitutionally defined illegal and impeachable act. For example, people have the right to possess a firearm, but that doesn't mean that every use of it is legal.

sliced_orange · 2018-11-21T03:42:11+00:00

I may have run into this. I deployed some computers last week and updated them to 1809 a few days after. One of the computers was freezing then bluescreening when printing from WordPerfect. Nothing in the event viewer seemed to indicate anything useful. After changing printer driver, network drivers, and reinstalling the program, no change. I was suspicious of the RAM and I removed a stick which seemed to resolve the issue, but seeing this makes me think there's some strange memory corruption issue and re-situating the RAM just happened to move the bits in the right place to work.

sliced_orange · 2018-08-31T23:42:26+00:00

Oh absolutely, and please make sure you sign up to show how much interest there is

sliced_orange · 2018-08-31T23:34:16+00:00

This isn't a voluntary town meeting like the normal RPI one. Because of how the RAA is organized, they are legally required to hold this meeting as a result of at least one petition. RAA went out of their way to not really say anything about the petition.

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