[Gllug] Large raid 5/5+0 setup

[John Hearns]

2009/6/18 Andrew Farnsworth <farnsaw at stonedoor.com>

> Now, try buying enough enclosures, redundant power supplies, redundant
> connections, etc to make this into a full storage subsystem and you will
> find
> that £26,000 is not too bad a price for enterprise class equipment.  Now if
> you
> are looking at "Near line" storage rather than front line, you can get away
> with
> the pokey 7200 RPM 3.5" drives and probably bring your cost down, but you
> are
> giving up the redundancy and speed (performance) that you will receive on a
> the
> enterprise class storage solution.


Well said Andrew. Agree totally.


ps. regarding terabytes on your home movie store, terabytes are for gert big
wendy pooves.
Real Men (TM) (and Real Women of course) have petabytes.

Panasas:
http://www.byteandswitch.com/storage/other/petaflop-supercomputers-storage-exposed.php?type=article

Lustre:
https://slx.sun.com/1179274187
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