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

[Ken Hansen]

Take a look at the Plan 9 file architecture (lots of RAM, migrating to Disk/DASD, finally going to WORM Optical drive). That is what I would like to implement at home...

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 12:50 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: Bus architecture was RE: [SunRescue] Re: NetApps?
> 
> 
> 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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