Remember that season of Silicon Valley on HBO that was all about “the box”?

I feel like we’re in that season.

Can't wait to move my spinning rust NAS to this in 20 years.

What would this cost?

The very first sentence of this article mistakes Terabytes and Petabytes. I used to dismiss the entire article as poor quality on seeing a mistake like this. But these days it also feels like an indicator the article was written by a human and might actually have something interesting to say.

Sadly not in this case though - the Kioxia drives are interesting, but the fact that Dell has put some in a box is much less so.

There's been a lot of talk about orbital DCs lately, but with these levels of density, orbital CDNs might be a more obvious usecase. It would be interesting to see if something like Starlink can use something like this to cache media content and reduce their overall data moving through the constellation. It could even be worth it to have some satellites in higher orbits (even GEO if the ground hw can reach it) dedicated to streaming media content. You can tolerate higher RTT for content that doesn't need to be real time.

Full NICs takes about 666 minutes to fill this thing.

Satan’s NAS!

Some wealthy techbro from /r/datahoarders is going to purchase this to store all episodes of Doctor Who in uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 FFV1 Matroska remuxes with redundant PAR2 recovery archives.