Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000
by serverascode on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @05:59PM
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I'm looking at enclosures that can hold 60 disks. So 3TB SAS disks would be 180TB. Most enclosures of that kind have dual everything. Some SAS drives even have dual connections I believe (should look that up again).
At some point it's really a function of the size of the drives that makes the volume large. I think 60 drives is going to pretty much be the physical limit in 4 rack units.
You can buy the NL-108 from Isilon which has 108TB (36 3TB disks) if you want "enterprise." ;) Eventually they'll use 4TB drives in those.
At some point it's really a function of the size of the drives that makes the volume large. I think 60 drives is going to pretty much be the physical limit in 4 rack units.
You can buy the NL-108 from Isilon which has 108TB (36 3TB disks) if you want "enterprise." ;) Eventually they'll use 4TB drives in those.