Bus architecture was RE: [SunRescue] Re: NetApps?

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Wed Mar 21 12:14:38 CST 2001


In systems working or just laying around? 
	Nick

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> So, how long till we have terabytes of storage at home?  For awhile now,
> I've been thinking of laying out for a 300gig server array.  Not sure how
> large that would be after raid 5 is applied.  But that's a 3rd of the way
> to a terabyte.  Who here has the largest amount of disk space at home?
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Bjrn Ramqvist wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Chris Byrne wrote:
> > > 
> > > As far as I know it will only be sold for Hitachi Freedom 9000 large scale
> > > storage arrays (a cool 2 million a pop just for starters). Those bad boys
> > > are some serious storage. Each array can have up to 32gb of cache, and 512
> > > disks for a raw capacity of around 37TB. The last company I worked for had
> > > 20 of them and was buying more. They eventually planned to have 150.
> > 
> > 150 of'em!?!?!!! Yikes... And I thought that 1TB (for now) for
> > PeeCee-fileserving was bad enough for our customer. =)
> > I know Compaq has some joint-venture with IBM for a large-scale
> > mainframe-capable storage called CSS2105. Typical 11.2 TB max capability
> > and (now) upto 32 GB cache. I don't even want to know the pricetag on
> > that thing.
> > 
> > /Bjorn
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