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World's Five Biggest SANs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the still-need-more-drivespace dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ByteandSwitch is searching the World's Biggest SANs, and has compiled a list of 5 candidate with networks supports 10+ Petabytes of active storage. Leading the list is JPMorgan Chase, which uses a mix of IBM and Sun equipment to deliver 14 Pbytes for 170k employees. Also on the list are the U.S. DoD, which uses 700 Fibre Channel switches, NASA, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (it's got 18 Pbytes of tape! storage), and Lawrence Livermore."

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  1. Re:14Pb for 170k employees... by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    14Pb for 170k employees isn't so much - 83 gigabytes per person. If you add up the total disk space in an average office you'll get more than that. Except that you miscalculated by a factor of a thousand.
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  2. thank god they don't use Apple XSAN by t35t0r · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because if they did they would crash daily and corrupt their data.