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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Flawed_L0gic on 2024-08-04 17:56:52.

Got sent this by a family member, alarm bells immediately began ringing.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-16tb-ssd-nas-is-so-small-it-fits-in-your-backpocket-and-yet-it-packs-a-full-fledged-arm-pc-has-a-battery-delivers-personal-cloud-storage-and-can-even-transform-into-a-wireless-drive

Immediately, there's no way you're getting 16TB of SSD storage for that price. Not even close. You're looking at 3-4x that for storage alone.

But if you assume it's not shipping with any storage at that price... it gets a little more feasible?

Their specs say Rockchip RK3588 CPU, ARM Mali-G610 GPU, and 8GB RAM - a bit of searching leads me to this amazon link for a ~$200 dollar single board computer with CURIOUSLY similar feature listings to what's on their site. Throw in a battery, custom chassis, and manufacturing, and it probably wouldn't be far off from that 400 dollar mark.

~~One problem - the chip in question only has a single storage interface, which according to the spec sheet can only be used as either SATA 3.0 OR PCIe 2.0 (graphic says 1 lane), which if I understand correctly, means a maximum of ~600MBS throughput.~~ (Edit: I used the wrong spec sheet. This lists up to 4x PCIe 3.0 lanes. So maybe it's decent?)

So worst case scenario, it's vaporware, best case scenario, you're spending over a grand for a box that can't do any better than a SATA drive.

The number of features they're claiming to offer on their site doesn't really make it much better. But I dunno. Maybe I'm missing something.

Thoughts?

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