Hey, Nimbus Data. What you doin' with those 4TB flash slabs? Making a 96TB box? We KNEW it!

Re: 16/8/4/2 Git/sec

Turns out, an Olympic swimming pool contains a mammoth amount of data.

By my calculations, if you were to simply describe it as literally (H20×Number of molecules in the pool), you'd need 227800000000000000000 TiB (Tebibytes).

As for the individual molecules of the other trace elements in the pool, that becomes impractical and time wasting to estimate. Of course, describing water as simply "H20" doesn't describe all the properties, so it could be argued you'd need to include a longer description per molecule, vastly increasing the dataset required!

Thankfully, this dataset would be compressed insanely efficiently, so it's not as horrifying as it initially appears!

Re: Bandwidth starved

That's 40GB/s, obviously, it's just a (very usual) typo, clearly. As much as I don't believe half of what Nimbus claims and even without my previous dealings with the CEO (think of a snake oil sales guy) I'd certainly never put all my data on a box where the CEO directly deals with everything, down to customer support, where staff members usually leave or laid off within a year (see El Reg reports from last year as well as Nimbus' disastrous reviews at Glassdoor) etc etc I still *DO* realize that the hardware design must be capable, that's not the issue (the issue is the shocking mismanagement and the horror stories you can hear from insiders.)

Re: I'll Stick With This...

I'm not sure what unit you have tested but Skyera's upcoming SkyHawk (the one with the built-in switch in the back, with its weird 30-port gigabit option) is actually limited to 2.4GB/s, according to my recent discussions with them - their next-gen unit, SkyEagle, with that promised 20GB/s, is nowhere near to mass production, and even its first (beta) iteration will come half-baked, with only iSCSI & NFS supported, SMB3 is only slated to arrive toward the end of this year.

And no offense but I'm very doubtful you will have anything in June... for starter unless you have a paid a TON of money to participate in a non-production-grade unit's beta program - speaking of which, how much was your price tag? Since I know the real numbers getting a correct ballpark number would quickly settle the second point, namely my misgivings about your claims...

I hope Skyera will come through and indeed turns the market upside down but based on the prices I've seen I don't see it happening before a fully mature SkyEagle hits the market around this time next year (even Skyera admitted it is likely to be the real timeline for en masse shipments of fully-featured, production-quality units.)