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Petabyte Storage Array

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cool-factor dept.

knight13 writes "Engadet is reporting that EMC is rolling out a petabyte RAID array. From the article, "And if you're ready for that level of storage, there's now someplace to get it: EMC has launched its first petabyte array, a version of the company's flagship Symmetrix DMX-3 system that includes nine room-filling cabinets of drives." The price? A mere $4 million."

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  1. Digging deep for this one... by PornMaster · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Man, just imagine a beowulf cluster with one of these!

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    500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
  2. A petabyte of pr0n by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: -1, Redundant


    Cue the 'finally enough storage space for my pr0n' jokes.

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  3. Re:1 Peta?? How many by Gryle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    jpegs
    I think you misspelled porn.

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    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not entirely sure about the universe - Einstein
  4. Mean Time Between Failures by tewner · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I talked to someone who set up a Petabyte array many years ago (he had a *lot* of funding). It seems that when you put tens of thousands of disks together, your total mean time between failures becomes, well, for all those disks, every few minutes. They had someone full time whos job was to go around replacing disks all day.