[geeks] icecube

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, 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.
>
> I don't know about other people, but my biggest bottle nekc is between
> the disk controller and the machine I want to use the disk space on.
> In particular at the moment it is 10mbit.  Soon it will be 100mbit,
> but even that is pretty slow.

Nope.  Not here,  The biggest bottleneck with me is the CPU.

Peace...  Sridhar

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