16 Cheap 1TB Gen5 Drives Cost About $3,500 — Enough for Local Frontier Models
carrigmat · x · 2026-08-27
Countering the cost objection, the author notes small drives are fine as long as bandwidth is high; cheap drives with small caches and low write endurance work too since the workload is read-only. Sixteen 1TB Gen5 drives total roughly $3,500.
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