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DataDirect Networks has announced its SFA7700 hybrid flash and disk drive scale-out filer appliance for Big Data and high-performance computing-type applications. It's the latest in a series of Big Data announcements that take into account the convergement trend, and DDN must be hoping that its latest beastly appliance can hold …

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  1. Alan Brown Silver badge

    Hmmmm

    That drawer looks strikingly familiar - either a Xyratex or Nexsan product with different front panel

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    vertically mounted drives

    Interesting that the drives are "end on vertical" mounted.

    I was told by a hard drive manufacturer (not a SAN/NAS vendor) that mounting hard drives "end on vertically", as opposed to flat or side on vertically, gave a higher failure rate....

    Anyone else hear (or experience) that?

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    1. Levente Szileszky
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      Re: vertically mounted drives

      Vertically mounted drives are standard in all high-density SAN models for years now and I think that "hard drive manufacturer" buddy was talking out of his bottom part but I'm pretty sure he wasn't from the main supplier of enterprise drives (= Seagate w/ Constellation for SATA, Savvio for SAS.)

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