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freaking ridiculous wait hold on a second 13.9 terabytes this qx

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extra-large SSD has a whopping

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15.3 terabytes of capacity that's right

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my friends over 15 terabytes on a single

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ssc this thing probably has more storage in it than your entire household what

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would you even do with this get off this

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much solid stage storage and how much would you pay for it i i legit want to

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know can you guys leave a comment below what would you do with this how much would you pay as for what we would do

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with it well i've got some ideas

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unlike the 100 terabyte extra drive from nimbus data that we checked out recently

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this drive from team group fits in a standard two and a half inch bay hasn't

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been mercilessly disassembled yet and is aimed at consumers to put in

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a normal gaming rig like the one behind me right there crazy right

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it's crazy to think about like on these two two and a half inch drive sleds but

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boom 30 terabytes of solid-state storage you know there was a trend in ssds where

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at first they were made of like really thick housings so they'd feel like

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quality and then over time you know the pc industry they cheaped out and cheaped

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out until they were basically made of aluminum foil and the internals but this

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one's heavy you notice that it's heavy there's a lot an end a lot of nand chips

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in there and i mean compared to a hard drive it weighs practically nothing like

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look at that this is 12 up to 20 terabytes

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15 terabytes i mean no wonder the data center loves SSD now it's not cheap but

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dense for sure okay let's pop that puppy on there

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where'd the cable go oh wow it's like you went out of your way

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to get the most ass looking SATA cable

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thank you for that thanks for nothing

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let's go ahead and fire it up ladies and gentlemen there it is there's our c

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drive 446 gigabytes ew and then we got

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the big o drive that's a lot of that's a lot of

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terabytes freaking ridicul wait hold on

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a second 13.9 terabytes what happened to

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my 15.3 what a ripoff i believe this is

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what's known as a bra moment kids can you verify please is

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to say bra moment okay it's not because

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team group uses standard gigabytes for their specifications where one Gigabyte

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is 1 000 megabytes which is 1 000

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kilobytes etc but microsoft likes to

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think different so to speak and they use tabby bytes and gibby bytes instead so

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what that means is that to Windows 1 Gigabyte is

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1024 megabytes which is 1024 kilobytes

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because of this discrepancy Windows only sees the drive as being about 91

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of its actual capacity i wish that this problem would just go away but for that

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to happen we'd have to get all the software engineers to agree with all the hardware engineers and they both have to

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agree with all the marketing people which i think we all know is never going

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to this puppy is rated at 560 megabytes per

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second reads and up to 480 megabytes per second right not real impressive by

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today's standards where you'll find drives that are like

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three four five six gigabytes a second

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reads and writes of course sequential reads and writes are not the

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be-all and end-all of drive performance anyway

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okay so we won't be doing any sequential

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drive speed porn with this particular drive i mean it definitely meets the

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rated spec 550 megabytes a second reads but that's

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okay because we've actually got that coming with an early look at kiosia's

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next gen u.3 enterprise drive so get

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subscribed so you don't miss that one this this is more about this is more of

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a capacity play but why is it so slow this is a brand new drive well there's a

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couple of reasons first of all it uses the SATA interface which is

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getting on an age and not being revised anymore for higher speeds because it's

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been mostly replaced by pci express number two is that it uses the ahci

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protocol which really was designed for

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magnetic drives not for ssds that's why

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all those new pci express drives use NVMe instead but it's got other problems

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even if it hooked up to a faster interface it uses qlc nand which

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sacrifices some of its durability and its performance for the sake of cramming

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in more capacity so this sabrant qnvme

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pci em.2 is another perfect example of a

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qlc product it's an 8 terabyte drive but of course

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gives up some performance particularly on writes still it's impressive though

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cramming 15 freaking terabytes of data into this tiny enclosure with no moving

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parts and there's plenty of performance for a

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lot of things you might want to do so let's have a look at some of the stuff

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that our probation ow probation writer

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copied onto the drive see if we can bring it to its knees hello

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did it uh lock up again is this thing just like a piece of it

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obviously for our viewers a big one would be games you guys might have

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noticed that uh we only managed to fill up like

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one and a half terabytes of this thing to put this in context this drive can

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fit 61 copies of cod warzone on it and

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when it comes to loading times let's use grand theft auto 5 as our example is the

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game with notoriously long loading times fire up some story mode here and in the

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meantime i'll give you some more context for how huge this thing is

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307 ultra hd 4k blu-ray movies nearly

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3.1 million songs if we assume the

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average stream quality is an mp3 file that's roughly 5 megabytes

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not bad right not bad now in the future game loading

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time performance could be affected by technologies like direct storage oh my

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goodness okay which

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in the future you could run into bottlenecks with games that use direct

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storage which is going to allow much much faster level loading times kind of

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like you see in the playstation 5 and the xbox series but for now with

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classically designed games i wouldn't expect any appreciable performance

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difference between this and just about anything else man this poor titan is

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really showing its age here it smells this is one of our old editing

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stations it freezes if you move it around too much

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sit tight enough of that though sorry new writer

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we don't have time to look at your memes and smash mouth collection somebody once

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told me that it's just not worth our audience's time

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uh time to disassemble this thing so

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i think you just pop off those four screws and

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crack it open right wait how much does this thing cost should i be worried

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about breaking it no don't don't tell me don't spoil it there's a screw under

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here hold on hey there it is

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all right that's a pretty normal looking drive we got

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eight nan flash chips here we've got two

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dram chips mounted here what's this uh have we googled this part number yet i

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want to know how much RAM this freaking thing has because theoretically it

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should have like eight to 16 gigs and there's no way there's like there's no

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way they did that but this is 26 66 megahertz

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ddr4 and i believe these are actually 16

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gigabit dies so that would mean that

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there's at least four gigs of RAM and i've only looked at one side of the pcb

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what are these fizen chips here oh my god my eyes are going i need my

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reading glasses or or ha

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holy this thing actually has eight gigs of

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RAM there's two more t-rex on the other

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side this thing is freaking nuts

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are these power loss capacitors over here does this thing have power loss

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protection oh my god i guess you'd need so many of them because in order to

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flush eight gigabytes of data this thing would have to stay powered for a

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freaking long time holy crap balls so

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every one of these nand packages here is a

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bite okay it's got eight gigabytes of RAM and

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is using a faison

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ps3112 so like yeah fine that is some

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sweet engineering to be clear team group does not advertise any kind

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of power loss protection i am i'm guessing that that's what these puppies

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are for one thing to note however is that the bill of materials for this

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particular drive can apparently change from unit to unit because this is a

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non-standard sku and is actually built to order not sure if that's a huge

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problem since this isn't the sort of thing that your average consumer can buy

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given that it caught oh my god we got to the part of the script where i find out

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how much it cost 4 000

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and making matters more challenging is the

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fact that you could actually buy two of these eight terabyte pci express drives

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and enough hoodies to wear a new one every day of the week from

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ltteststore.com for significantly less money than one of

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these not to mention that it would be way faster i could see it being useful

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for maybe video editors or a high capacity storage server that uses two

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and a half inch bays but funny thing is it's not super great for large amounts

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of sustained writes since its right endurance is only 2 560 terabytes now

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that's still a lot it's actually comparable to a 4 terabyte samsung 860

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evo but it's relatively low for a 16

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terabyte excuse me 15.3 terabyte drive

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since you could only actually wipe and refill this thing

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167 times that doesn't feel like a lot of times for four thousand dollars

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maybe you just want long-term storage with higher reliability than a hard

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drive and you have money to burn okay so

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it doesn't matter the drive has its uses but it's not an economy or budget option

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and it also doesn't really make sense if you're an enthusiast since you'd be better served with a smaller

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higher performance drive and then maybe some kind of

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magnetic storage with an SSD cache on it or something but if you absolutely need

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15 terabytes in a two and a half inch data enclosure then i guess this is

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there for you for you and only you it's dang cool though isn't

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it so good job team group for making this weird thing because you could even

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though you must have known almost nobody would actually buy it unless of course

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if you guys enjoyed this video you might also enjoy the video where we checked

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out the nimbus data 100 terabyte drive

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that one architecturally very different but is designed for a very different use