Storage Hardware
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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the a16z Podcast
3 statements about Storage Hardware, every show
Hade: Battery storage hardware costs dropped 30% to 40% over 18 months
“So at the pack level over the last 18 months, battery costs are down like 40%, depending on sort of what analysis you look at. And at the system level, maybe like 30% is the right way to think about it. So the cost of, you know, an actual system that you deplo…”
Friend: Wasabi storage costs less than equivalent hardware maintenance
“Typically, you can store a petabyte of data in Wasabi for less than just the annual maintenance on a, on the equivalent amount of hardware.”
Storage vendors forecast a global hardware shortage within 3 to 5 years
“They're forecasting that there just simply isn't going to be enough storage for all the data we're collecting in a midterm horizon, like three to five years that we're creating so much data that There won't be enough chips. There won't be enough hard drives. T…”