Hafthor Bjornsson, Game of Thrones star and former World's Strongest Man, has lifted 996 lbs of SSDs and 283 Petabytes worth about $32 million in what is the most expensive deadlift ever.

Tom's Hardware reported that Icelandic strongman Hafthor Bjornsson, who won the 2019 World's Strongest Man contest and played Gregor Clegane, "The Mountain", in Game of Thrones, completed a "deadlift of information" by hoisting thousands of 128 terabyte SSDs of the next generation at the SD24 computing convention. Each drive is expected to sell for north of $10,000 when they hit the market. This must be the most expensive deadlift performed.

The stunt was organized jointly by HPC infrastructure company VDURA, and hard drive manufacturer Phison. The stunt was designed to draw attention to Phison’s 128TB SSDs that are aimed at the datacenter market. Bjornsson performed a "silver-dollar" deadlift where a barbell was hooked to two large boxes, originally loaded with silver dollar weights when the event first appeared in early World's Strongest Man contests.

Bjornsson didn't have silver dollars in his crates. Instead, he had a half-ton of Phison next-gen SSDs. According to VDURA, the press release on the lift stated that it contained 282 petabytes, which is equivalent to 282,000 terabytes. Bjornsson wouldn't have had to worry about his Steam library size again if he just walked away with the barbell. It's going to be a challenge to get it through the doorways, and Icelandair will charge you for 996 lbs. of checked luggage.

Please allow me to do some more math on a napkin. We don't know yet how much enterprise-oriented SSDs in the 128TB range will cost. But, if you look at TechRadar, Solidigm's SSD 62TB, aimed at the same segment, is priced at $7,000; a 128TB SSD from the same manufacturer is likely to be $14,000. This is also in line with consumer SSDs that can cost anywhere between $40-$90 per terabyte.

If we use $14,000 to estimate the value of the 2,303 Phison SSDs Bjornsson raised, then he lifted $32 million in storage. Bjornsson has performed heavier deadlifts, but has anyone ever lifted a more expensive Barbell or other implement? I don't think it's possible.

We'll have to wait until Bjornsson, the 2017 World's Strongest Man Eddie Hall (formerly Bjornsson) deadlifts 2,30 4 mondo expensive SSDs for Samsung, Solidigm, or someone else, to set a new world record in "deadlifting of data". This will reignite the rivalry between these two giant men.