Currently, you can get a 2TB SSD for about $350.Nordlandia wrote:7 man files is around the corner. Storing them in SSD format is extremely expensive. Alternatively using HDD for adjudication in cutechess is less expensive. In the long run like you're implying, more and more people can afford them for raw analysis. HDD simply inflict severe bottleneck, thus only choise is for adjudication.Dann Corbit wrote:There is a commercial 100 TB SSD drive.Nordlandia wrote:As of now, it is highly likely to indicate wdl is to be less or more than 10 TB in size. For simple adjudication only wdl is needed. 10 TB HDDs is fairly affordable.
I guess in 5 years a 100 TB SSD drive will be less than $1000.
Anyone who wants will be able to afford storage for the full 7 man files.
In 5 years 100 TB will be less than a thousand dollars.
If you want 7 man tablebase files, it will be affordable then (at least to some).
There is no bottleneck. Even on slow HDD, it is all about how you probe them.
And adjudication won't work unless you have them stored somewhere. So the same thing applies to TB files used for adjudication.
100 TB SSD:
http://nimbusdata.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkp ... TUEALw_wcB
Prices fall exponentially over time. Capacity rises exponentially over time.
Eventually, it will cost one penny to store 10 man TB files.
Maybe that is a very long time from now. But eventually.
In the meantime, 7 man TB will be cheap enough for nut case hobbyists like me very soon.