Have had some first hand experience with 1.5TB drives. I'll not go down
that path again for some time. Seagate didn't yet gifure out how to
make them reliable.
Has anyone yet played with the WD 2TB drives or are they still in the
Marketing/Vaporware stage?
gerry
Joe Landman wrote:
... of course this means that JackRabbits could hit 96TB in 5U
(mwahahaha!). Delta-V's with 48TB in 4U (front mounted).
The difficult thing would be time to read all of the data on these
devices. It looks like we are building a bandwidth wall to hide behind
here ... at 100 MB/s read, 1GB in 10 seconds, 1 TB in 10,000 seconds, so
20,000 seconds to read this device. Thats about 1/4 of a day.
Thanks to Andrew Latham for pointing this out to me last night. The
link was
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/western-digitals-2tb-caviar-green-hdd-on-sale-in-australia/
and I put a short note up on my blog (http://scalability.org/?p=1187) on
this.
Hopefully we will get to play with these very soon.
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