[geeks] icecube

David Passmore dpassmor at sneakers.org
Fri Apr 26 12:56:29 CDT 2002


On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Has anyone looked at IBM's IceCube system?  It seems to be getting a lot of 
> press at the moment.
> 
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/storagesystems/IceCube/index.html

I'm not sure what all the hoopla is about. Disposable storage. Well, storage
isn't yet cheap enough to be disposable. And none of what is in this design
is going to increase the performance of your biggest bottleneck, the disk. 

David



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