Icelandic athlete Hafthor Julius Bjornsson, known to “Game of Thrones” fans as Gregor Clegane (The Mountain), set a new world record for “deadlift data”, lifting a barbell reinforced with SSD drives with a total weight of 452 kilograms.
For the record, boxes with Phison Pascari D205V PCIe Gen5 SSD drives with a capacity of 122.88 TB each were used (total capacity – 282 petabytes).
In reality, for Bjornsson himself, who holds the titles of “Strongest Man on the Planet 2018” and “Strongest Man in Europe 2014”, this weight is not a record, and the event was primarily a marketing move for the partnership of hard drive manufacturer Phison and Vdura, a company that develops artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure.
Phison Pascari D205V PCIe Gen5, in addition to its huge capacity, can boast of performance that “is suitable for the most demanding workloads with intensive data volume“ – with a sequential read speed of up to 14600 MB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 3200 MB/s.