During the SC24, the Mountain from Game of Thrones took on a challenge in deadlifting: He lifted over 282,000 terabytes of SSDs – enough to store Baldur’s Gate 3 more than 2 million times.
What did the Mountain do? Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is an Icelandic strength athlete and actor. He is best known for his role as Gregor Clegane aka The Mountain
starting from the fourth season of the hit series Game of Thrones.
As part of an event by the companies VDURA and Phison, he took part during the SC24, a high-end PC fair, in the American city of Atlanta, to break the record in Deadlift of Data
. He managed to lift 451 kilograms or 282,000 terabytes of SSDs in the deadlift from the ground.
A completely different kind of data recording is introduced in this video:
Enough SSDs to store Baldur’s Gate 3 more than 2 million times
How often can Baldur’s Gate 3 fit on the SSDs? The SSDs to be lifted were housed in two Silver Dollar deadlift boxes. In total, there was space for over 282,000 terabytes of SSDs. Specifically, these were over 2,200 units of the 128 terabyte PCIe Gen5 Pascari D205V SSD.
282,000 terabytes equals 282,000,000 gigabytes. That means, on all those SSDs, you could install the Game of the Year 2023 Baldur’s Gate 3 more than 2 million times.
Developer Larian states on Steam that you need 150 gigabytes of free storage space to install Baldur’s Gate 3. So, if someone wanted to fill up all the available storage on the Pascari drives simultaneously, they can only have a total of 1,880,000 concurrent installation processes running. In the editorial office, we checked the size of Baldur’s Gate 3: including all updates, the game currently requires 147.23 GB (as of 25.11.24).
By the way, you can watch the deadlift in full length here:
No SSD for home
What kind of SSD is this? The Pascari D205V SSD used as weight here is currently not available. It is supposed to launch in the second quarter of 2025. However, likely very few will install it in their gaming PCs:
- According to the manufacturer Phison, the SSD is specifically designed for AI training and streaming.
- A single Pascari D205V has up to 128 terabytes of storage and a PCIe-5.0×4 interface.
- A read speed of 14,600 megabytes per second and a write speed of up to 3,200 megabytes per second.
The target audience for the Phison SSD is primarily large companies with equally high volumes of data to process. Phison itself also markets its product as a model for server systems.
For a gaming PC, around 1 terabyte of storage is usually sufficient, depending on personal usage patterns. Whether that is just enough for you or even too much, you can read about it here.
Not quite 282,000 terabytes, but still around 40 a player got when ordering a new SSD for his PC. An Amazon employee apparently made a big mistake. Here is the story: Player buys an SSD for 50 euros – accidentally receives 40 SSDs worth over 2,000 euros
