It will all be active photon memory based on a cyclic laser storage system. No physical storage media employed.
yeah, I'll have that in my garage right next to my flying car
It will all be active photon memory based on a cyclic laser storage system. No physical storage media employed.
Plus this is a BS SATA device. All the price comparison's they are using for the other companies are all Fiber Channel.
Are you telling me that you guys don't have a cheap disk option with SATA? A lot of times the throughput isn't that big of a deal...
But that's EXACTLY what they needed, and apparently something that no one could offer anywhere near that price.We do our SATA offerings are a ton cheaper that our FC. But you are also paying for additional capabities with these other vendors (i.e. CIFS, NFS, SAN, iSCSI, etc). What good is 67 TB of flat storage going to give you other than a huge dumping ground for user files.
non-redundant PSUs as well. f that. With that much storage, I want redundancy.
But that's EXACTLY what they needed, and apparently something that no one could offer anywhere near that price.
They have redundancy, its called a completely different server. I'm sure its like Google's server farms, where they buy a ton of "cheap" servers and swap them in and out as needed.
yeah, I'll have that in my garage right next to my flying car
http://machinedesign.com/article/single-photon-memory-0126
Save space for the car, it will be coming later.
Actually Google is all Netapp and it's all multie reduntant. They buy only high end stuff.
yeah, not holding my breath on that one
Think I'll pass this along to my boss anyway, we could use it for dba's that tick us off.
67TB is a lot to have no redundancy on, particularly with limited replication options
It's software RAID6 and this "cloud" computing stuff. Still seems a bit sketchy.