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University Chooses Apple RAID for Linux Cluster

Posted by Hemos on from the mucho-storage dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Linux World article describes how Swinburne University chose Apple's Xserve RAID to add storage to it's Dell linux cluster, as it was the cheapest solution. Apple was sceptical about its RAID system working with Linux, but the system was up and running in 15 minutes."

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  1. Compression - WOW! wait, I mean HOW? by seigniory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "According to Bailes, the centre records 13TB of data per day, which gets processed in real time down to 30GB and then compressed further to 3KB."

    OK, can someone to explain to me that either yes, there is a lot of redundant data that can have crazy-good compression rates, or that no, this quote is wrong...

  2. Um, well "Duh!". by DAQ42 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been booting my Linux boxes from my XServe RAID for months now. It's just a fibre array. And the XRAID Admin program is a straight Java applications so you can run it on any platform that supports Sun Java 1.4.1.

    Go figure.

    It's not rocket science. These devices have been engineered using standards of the industry.

    Doh!

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