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Fujitsu Announces World's Largest Capacity Storage

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-it-on-the-table-to-measure dept.

Adam Eliason writes to tell us that Fujitsu has announced the world's largest capacity storage array. From the article: "the ETERNUS 8000 and ETERNUS 4000 storage arrays. Weighing in at 1.36 petabytes, or 1.36 million gigabytes, the ETERNUS file storage arrays push the envelope for enterprise data storage systems. Fujitsu uses 2,760 nearline fibre-channel 500GB disk drives in its flagship ETERNUS server (model 2100) and can be configured with up to 256GB of cache."

2 of 59 comments (clear)

  1. Re:1.36 Petabytes? Or 1.36 million gigs? by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, you're confused with Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, Tebi and Pebi.
    But they've only been around since 1998, so you're forgiven ;)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix.

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  2. Re:How long to boot up? How much power? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The power specification lists a maximum power usage of 82,900W so presumably more is needed than a 30A circuit. But if you can afford the machine you can probably afford the custom electrics to run it.