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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. Hot Damn, now I can finally ... by bushboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    download the whole internet !

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    1. Re:Hot Damn, now I can finally ... by moro_666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      if you are strong enough, get also the ds6000/8000 backpack from ibm and carry the whole internet around with you :)

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  2. DS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does that stand for *cough* DeathStar, er *cough* I mean DeskStar hard drives?

  3. Writeup is wrong by amorsen · · Score: 5, Informative

    The DS6000 supports up to to 67.2TB, but not in one enclosure. The DS6000 only fits 16 disks per enclosure, and with 400GB disks that is 6.4TB. 400GB disks seem to only be available as SATA and PATA, the largest SCSI disks I could find are 300GB. That means 4.8TB per enclosure. 16 DS6000's per 48U rack, that's 76.8TB. Remove every 8th disk for RAID-5, that's 67.2TB.

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  4. Only 125 pounds? by mrjb · · Score: 5, Funny

    At that price I'll have one.

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  5. Longhorn System Reqs. by jaephu · · Score: 5, Funny

    uh oh... Microsoft Windows Longhorn Minimum System Requirements: ... Hard Drive: 30TB Memory: 2 GB

  6. Product pricing and availability by just+someone · · Score: 5, Informative

    Product pricing and availability
    IBM's new storage offerings with enterprise class functions reset the bar with minimum configurations starting at half a terabyte and list prices starting as low as $97,000. The DS6000 series and the DS8000 series come standard with a four-year warranty on hardware and software, which is unique in the industry.

    What are they smoking? 9.7 k a terrabyte, maybe. 97k. Even EMC is not that high any more.