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IBM Launches New Product Line

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-its-only-125-pounds dept.

An anonymous reader notes that "IBM has launched its new product line of storage devices: the DS6000 and the DS8000. The results are quite impressive, with the DS6000 being rack mountable, 3U, and ONLY 125 pound storage device that will hold up to 67.2 TB! The DS8000 is equally impressive, with 6x performance of ESS 800 (Shark), making it the most powerful storage system to date. "

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  1. Expensive logo? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, the DS8000 is marketed as expandable up to 192TB. Since it's marketed as starting at 580GB, and priced starting at $97K, that's about $167:GB. Considering that a single 160GB drive, without redundancy, integrated POWER uC and other server hardware, IBM support or management software costs about $0.50:GB, and probably less in quantities of 1200 (==192TB), are those extras worth it compared to rolling your own RAID?

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    1. Re:Expensive logo? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Interesting

      OTOH, the DS6000 takes 300GB SCSI drives. 192TB is 640 300GB drives, which cost at least $197 in EIDE, for a total of $126K. While SCSI drives cost well over $500ea at 300GB, though about $1:GB at 147GB. If a loaded DS6000 costs anywhere near $325K, IBM really has great prices at the high end. That's about 768K FLAC'ed CDs, which would cost $15.4M to buy at $20ea.

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  2. Re:Writeup is wrong by OrangeTide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    8 disk RAID-5? You have a lot more guts than I do!

    Maybe raid5+1 or maybe four 4-disk raid5s stuck together in an append or raid0. Or maybe raid6, if anyone ever releases a product that makes it easier to manage.

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