15 terabyte drives that do 3.5GB/sec throughput, 850K IOPs, and cost around $3K USD.
On one extreme, you have near-infinite capacity up in the cloud, but high latency and low bandwidth (per VM.) Then on the other extreme, if you're buying colo boxes or on-premises boxes, drives like this make one heck of a good case for fast, low-cost storage.
On one extreme, you have near-infinite capacity up in the cloud, but high latency and low bandwidth (per VM.) Then on the other extreme, if you're buying colo boxes or on-premises boxes, drives like this make one heck of a good case for fast, low-cost storage.