The Game of Thrones mountain has lifted enough SSDs to save Baldur’s Gate 3 over 2 million times

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During SC24, the mountain from Game of Thrones took on a deadlifting challenge: It lifted over 282,000 terabytes of SSDs – so much that Baldur’s Gate 3 could be stored on it over 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 Der Berg from the fourth season of the hit series Game of Thrones.

As part of an event organized by the companies VDURA and Phison, he competed during SC24, a high-end PC trade fair, in the US city of Atlanta to break the record in the Deadlift of Data. He managed to get 451 kilos or 282,000 terabytes of SSDs off the ground while deadlifting.

What are deadlifts? Deadlifts are an exercise in which a weight lying on the floor is lifted from a bent-over position. The exercise, along with barbell squats and bench presses, is a sub-discipline of powerlifting.

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Enough SSDs to save Baldur’s Gate 3 over 2 million times

How many times does 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, there were over 2,200 copies of the 128 terabyte PCIe Gen5 Pascari D205V SSD.

282,000 terabytes are the equivalent of 282,000,000 gigabytes. This means that you could install the Game of the Year 2023 Baldur’s Gate 3 over 2 million times on all the SSDs.

Developer Larian states on Steam that you need 150 gigabytes of free space to install Baldur’s Gate 3. So if you want to fill up all the available memory on the Pascari disks at the same time, you can only have a total of 1,880,000 simultaneous installation processes running. In the editorial department we checked how big Baldur’s Gate 3 is: including all updates, the game currently requires 147.23 G (as of November 25, 2024).

By the way, you can watch the Deadlift in its entirety here:

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No SSD for home

What kind of SSD is this? The Pascari D205V SSD used here as a weight is currently not available. It is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2025. However, very few people will probably install them in their gaming PC:

  • According to manufacturer Phison, the SSD was specifically created for AI training and streaming.
  • A single Pascari D205V has up to 128 terabytes of memory 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 group for the Phison SSD is primarily large companies with equally large amounts of data to be processed. Phison itself also sells its product as a model for server systems.

    Depending on your usage behavior, around 1 terabyte of memory is enough for a gaming PC. You can read here whether that’s just enough for you or even too much.

    A gamer got not quite 282,000 terabytes, but at least around 40, when he ordered a new SSD for his PC. An Amazon employee apparently made a big mistake. Click here for the story: Player buys an SSD for 50 euros – accidentally receives 40 SSDs worth over 2,000 euros

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