In a remarkable display of strength meets technology, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson from Game of Thrones, famously known as "The Mountain", has achieved an extraordinary feat at the SC24 conference in Atlanta. The Icelandic strongman successfully deadlifted 996 pounds of next-generation solid-state drives (SSDs), representing an astounding 282.624 petabytes of storage capacity.
The spectacular event, organized through a collaboration between Phison and Vdura, showcased Phison's revolutionary Pascari D205V PCIe Gen5 122.88TB solid-state drives. The lift included a reinforced metal bar and specially designed silver dollar boxes containing the high-capacity drives.
While the 996-pound lift is impressive, it falls short of Björnsson's personal best - a world record of 1,104 pounds set in 2020 at Thor's Power Gym in Iceland. However, the real achievement lies in the technology behind the lift. Each 122.88TB SSD weighs less than half a pound, demonstrating remarkable advances in storage engineering.
The featured Pascari D205V drives boast exceptional performance metrics. With sequential read speeds reaching 14,600 MB/s and write speeds of up to 3,200 MB/s, these enterprise-grade SSDs rank among the world's fastest. Their random read performance clocks in at 3,000K 4K IOPS, while random write performance achieves 35K 16K IOPS.
This unique event successfully merged the worlds of athletic prowess and technological innovation, drawing attention to both Björnsson's strength and the impressive capabilities of modern storage solutions. The demonstration effectively illustrated how far data storage technology has evolved, packing massive capacity into lightweight, high-performance devices.