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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

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?

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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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