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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."

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  1. My power bill is crying... by javaDragon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... If by any chance my appartment electricity counter does not explode, it's going to cost me more in electricity just to keep the damn' ting running than I can afford.

    So, what would be the highest AFFORDABLE capacity storage ?

    (I'm currently using a Buffalo TeraStation, a bit slow but not full yet)

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  2. Now what would be really cool... by Baldrson · · Score: 2, Interesting
    With that many drives and a bit extra investment you could afford to do some custom drives. Develop some 500G drives with wafer-scale parallel read heads in which you can read the entire contents of a disk once per revolution and have compare circuitry out on the heads looking for matches. With all the drives synchronized to do that in parallel, you get something like 120 searches/sec of the full text of the entire petabyte.

    Now a Beowulf cluster of those would be cool.

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  3. How long to boot up? How much power? by ivan256 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A quick bit of math tells me that if they spun all those drives up at the same time the ting would draw at least 300 amps at 220V. Since this thing probably plugs into a 30 amp circuit, I wonder how long it takes to complete the staggered spinup... I wonder how long it takes for the power usage costs to exceed the purchase price...