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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/18 Andrew Farnsworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farnsaw@stonedoor.com">farnsaw@stonedoor.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Now, try buying enough enclosures, redundant power supplies, redundant<br>connections, etc to make this into a full storage subsystem and you will find<br>
that £26,000 is not too bad a price for enterprise class equipment. Now if you<br>are looking at "Near line" storage rather than front line, you can get away with<br>the pokey 7200 RPM 3.5" drives and probably bring your cost down, but you are<br>
giving up the redundancy and speed (performance) that you will receive on a the<br>enterprise class storage solution.</blockquote>
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<div>Well said Andrew. Agree totally.</div>
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<div>ps. regarding terabytes on your home movie store, terabytes are for gert big wendy pooves.</div>
<div>Real Men (TM) (and Real Women of course) have petabytes.</div>
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<div>Panasas:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.byteandswitch.com/storage/other/petaflop-supercomputers-storage-exposed.php?type=article">http://www.byteandswitch.com/storage/other/petaflop-supercomputers-storage-exposed.php?type=article</a></div>
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<div>Lustre:</div>
<div><a href="https://slx.sun.com/1179274187">https://slx.sun.com/1179274187</a></div>
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