Back to the articleIOPS #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 12:03 GMT
Any word on the IOPS with the new TB drives?
Dot Hill hops the 2TB train
Not very dense.. #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 12:03 GMT
.. compared to SGI's 6120, which can fit 1.2PB in a single rack with 60 2TB drives per 4u (i.e. 120TB) - an increase by a factor of 5.
All well and good, BUT #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 12:36 GMT
our network admin can't stand the damn things and uses them for unimportant stuff. Netapp have proved far better in his experience...
And at around 2500 iops... #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 13:01 GMT
...this array is almost as fast as a dead cow in the swamp. Not to mention the extreme reliability of two dozen sata drives - they are so proud of them they will give you four years less waranty than on SAS drives if you use the drives only every fifth day (20% duty cycle).
TO-TAL-LY AM-AZ-ING!!!eleven!
Sorry, I don´t have enough money to afford cheap arrays.
Woot! #
Posted Tuesday 7th July 2009 21:31 GMT
Hellooooo 500disc bluray archive!
Now if only I could afford 500 blurays after buying the archive...
...
Wait a minute, you guys use these things for other stuff, too? Who'dathunk!
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