Local LLM storage pain: an 8TB Gen5 SSD now costs $2,719.99
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-10-24
A Japanese developer vents that 4TB of SSD is nowhere near enough for flash-sized models — download, abliterate, delete, repeat — to the point of treating public Hugging Face repos as free cloud storage.
The quote-post poses a dilemma: buy a car, an RTX 5090, or 32TB of Gen5 NVMe? The screenshot shows a Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB PCIe Gen5 SSD priced at $2,719.99, so two of them already approach the cost of an actual car — a vivid snapshot of how expensive local LLM storage has become.
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