5Ghz x86?
I wonder what they are using there. AFAIK the only 5Ghz x86 on the market is an AMD enthusiast desktop chip, and it doesnt have 6 cores.
Dell has launched a flagship SC9000 Compellent array plus a more powerful XC hyper-converged system. It comes just days after Michael Dell launched a bid to buy EMC, which involves overlapping VNX array and ScaleIO hyper-converged products. The SC9000 is the fourth product in the dual-controller, Fiber Channel-accessed SC …
It's in the pic titled "SC8000 and SC9000 comparison points".
The CPU cores are noted 2 x 5GHz 6 core and 8 core x86.
So yeah, that's wierd. I thought 4GHz was the current max CPU frequency.
Edit : Ok, AMD has some 5GHz enthusiast models with 8 cores. I doubt anybody would put that in a blade server, though.
Wish when SC gets mentioned the focus is not always that its FC Storage cause that is just not true, SC's are brilliant at iSCSI and used to have five of them all on 10Gb iSCSI and worked a treat. I guess with EqualLogic being targeted at iSCSI there is a bit of a shadow with SC and iSCSI.
Not really. 3PB is based on a all NL SAS or multi tier config including large capacity NL SAS deives. Even if you calculate performance based on 960x600GB 15K drives you will see approx 450TB usable plus 170K BE iops. So the 385K is a pretty good number, not getting saturated even when you fully populate the system with fastest spinning drives available today. You will certainly need SSDs to push the number to 385K under 1ms latency.
Dell kept - and continues to keep - alive Equallogic, despite acquiring Compellent several years ago. They just released new versions of EQL hardware and firmware - which are solid.
I don't expect that Dell will make any rash or short-term decisions on this sort of thing; customers are too important and installed bases matter. And CML and EQL have really large and loyal customer bases.
DISCLOSURE: I consult in the selling of Dell and other storage products.