More than 300 TB of data was certainly a lot, but for direct numerical simulation data in fluid mechanics, such a volume was normal. After all, Xiao Yi had tested too many things at once, so the data volume was bound to be enormous. Even among direct numerical simulations, this counted as a relatively large-scale simulation.
Those hundred-plus solid-state drives alone had cost Xiao Yi quite a bit of money.
With even more data, it could potentially reach the petabyte level.
Fluid mechanics simulations were just that complicated.
Otherwise, for scenes involving liquids in games, developers often resorted to tricks to portray the liquids. How well liquids were rendered had also become a major way for developers to show off their technical prowess.
Of course, Xiao Yi was being rather extravagant. Normally, people used mechanical hard drives for transport, but he had considered that their read and write speeds were slow, only around 100–200 MB/s. Compared to the 2 GB/s-level read and write speeds of the drives he had bought, the gap was quite large. He had no time to waste waiting for data to be read and written.
It was only a few hundred thousand anyway, nothing much. Solid-state drive prices had also been fairly low lately. Perhaps he could use these drives again when he needed to calculate something else in the future.
After returning to the laboratory, it was time for the most important part.
Data Analysis.
Looking at the box of solid-state drives in front of him, Xiao Yi shook his head with a sigh.
"Director Zhao, Director Zhao, do you know how many coins I blew through for your problem?"
Without further nonsense, he inserted ten of the solid-state drives into the specially prepared NAS beside him, connected it to the server, and began reading