Actor Haftor Július Björnsson, who played the character of Horus in Game of Thrones, lifted the colossal weight of the SSD and set a new record, which became a kind of advertisement for Phison's D205V — one of the fastest enterprise-class solid-state drives in the world.
Actor Haftor Július Björnsson, who played the character of Horus in Game of Thrones, lifted the colossal weight of the SSD and set a new record, which became a kind of advertisement for Phison's D205V — one of the fastest enterprise-class solid-state drives in the world.
Björnsson lifted 282,624 petabytes of solid-state storage, breaking the record for a "dead lift of data" in front of attendees of the SC24 conference in Atlanta, writes TechSpot.
The total lifted weight was 996 lbs (452 kg), including a reinforced metal bar, specially designed silver dollar boxes, and a massive collection of the latest 122.88 TB Phison Pascari D205V PCIe Gen5 SSDs.
The effort to lift the deadlift was the result of a partnership between Phison and Vdura, a company dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure. The event was part serious test and part promotional demonstration of Phison's D205V enterprise drives.
The 996-pound "record" isn't even the heaviest Bjornsson has ever lifted. In 2020, he set a world record by deadlifting 1,104 pounds at Thor's Power Gym in Iceland.
However, it highlights a different kind of achievement: the fact that these 122.88TB solid-state drives weigh less than half a pound each is a testament to the enormous engineering advances behind today's largest-capacity drives.
In addition to their massive density and capacity, these NVMe Gen5 devices deliver impressive performance that's suitable for the most demanding, data-intensive workloads. They provide sequential read speeds of up to 14,600 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 3,200 MB/s. At the same time, the random read speed is 3000K 4K IOPS with 35K random write 16K IOPS.
These figures make them some of the fastest enterprise-grade SSDs in the world, so it's no surprise that Phison and Vdura wanted the world to take notice at a PR event.
