As I contemplate building my new "whore" (that's become what I always call my latest computer when I'm in the processing of planning and/or assembling it) I stumbled across the perfect storage solution... for the man with Bill Gates' income that is:
1.36 petabytes anyone? Sheesh!
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You could download the whole internet on a weekly basis... Then when your router goes down again you could just browse through the outdated internet for a while.
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They must have some good engineers to fit 1150 terabytes in three racks, unless that picture is just for illustration ;)
ReplyDeleteThen again, does the article state how big the racks are? Perhaps the picture is deceiving. -shrug- Either way, it's rather kewl to consider. I can't imagine the speed of transfers on such a thing.
ReplyDeleteAs for downloading the internet (Rob)... heh.. riiiiiiight.
Well, if you figure you can fit 15 disks per 3U of rack space, which is the norm for RAID storage, and you figure they're using 500GB disks, then you have 14 * 500GB of space per 3U (1 disk for parity, assuming RAID 5), but you really only have maybe 475GB per disk formatted capacity, so that means approx 6.5TB per 3U. If you figure the average rack is 48U, then that yields 104TB per rack. Three racks at 104TB each is only 312TB, and that's not counting any space consumed by controllers, etc. So even if you double the capacity of a standard rack, you're still only about half way to their 1.13PB. I think that picture must be for representation only.
ReplyDeleteThe throughput would be impressive, no doubt, but even with 10GbE, you'd be maxing out the HDD and CPU of the client system waaay before you got near the theoretical capacity of the array. Still it's cool, although I'm not sure what's "new" about it, since everything it does had been feasible for a while, it would just take up a lot more space I'm guessing.
As for downloading the entire Internet, I wonder how much space you'd actually need. That would be an interesting project if you ever won the lottery or something. But then again, Google, et al already do that on a daily basis :)
hi there! just stumbled onto your site...looks pretty cool. been collecting DC n Marvel too since the 70s! only difference is i live on the another side of the world. wat u reading these days? hah.
ReplyDeletetake it easy!
Predominately Marvel.. though DC *is* revisiting the best thing ever to happen to them (the Crisis) with Infinite Crisis, which has been "okay-to-good" so far. Just waiting for issue 7 to come out.
ReplyDeleteI'll be picking my IC #7 today after work. u following civil war? i wish i could pick up as many titles as i was years ago. These days, i been running out of storage space. Planning to get Cap A's Winter Soldier n Young Avengers TPBs too.
ReplyDeleteStorage space is impossible for me now. I'm beginning to think I need to rent dehumidified storage or something. I built shelves, with room to grow, and outgrew them in less than 2 years. There are boxes of them in my bedroom now. (sigh)
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