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420 Gigabyte Hard Drives

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bigger-longer-and-uncut dept.

Zach Garner writes "IBM is introducing a new line of harddrives, code named "Shark", that will start from 420gig and go up to 11 terrabyte." Now thats what I'm talking about. This kinda stuff has got to make the film industry as nervous as the recording industry. But mainly it just makes things like digital audio and video mixing a lot easier. (Update: 07/27 01:32 by CT : Course a few people noted that these things are the size of refrigerators so its not like their gonna be desktop toys any time soon either)

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  1. Not hard drives. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    This is a storage system, like a raid unit not a hard drive. IBM currently sells something like this, which had the code name "seascape" which basically had an RS/6000 front end and lots of IBM's SSA serial disk on the back. It runs a version of ADSM (IBM's lousy backup program) to a local tape drive. The actual RS/6K is hidden from the user, so their is no actual console you can log in to. This is what IBM is promoting along with SSA as a "SAN" soloution.

    Steve Scherbinski

  2. Yet another Article... by Capt_Troy · · Score: 4

    Here's one more from IBM itself. This ones a lot more detailed.

    http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/disk/990726.htm


    -capt.