Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by notaddicted on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @11:24AM (#798149)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(67+TB)+%2F+(2*(1+Gb%2F...)

It'll take 3 days at the theoretical max of the networking equipment to read/write the 67TB. The overhead of HTTPS constrains the networking so this is too low.

I'd expect that their internet connection (i.e. in/out of the data center) is the real bottleneck.

I believe that the system is being used as a tape drive replacement.

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Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by lsc on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @02:36PM (#798570)

If the load is relatively sequential, then yeah. But if the load is mostly random, then there is an argument for having more cache.

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