[geeks] icecube

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:56:29AM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> 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. 

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.

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Joshua D. Boyd