Chris Dagdigian wrote:
The flip side to your arguments is that I may not want my tax dollars spent on allowing the NIH to operate peta-scale data repositories. I can't be more specific than this -- my most recent exposure to a large government life science directorate revealed that they were spending $500K/year on EMC maintenance costs for a few tens-of-TBs worth of disk arrays that were going on 6 years old!
Anyone paying those rates for a few 10's of TB of storage is being taken to the cleaners.
Without having this become a commercial, for maginally more than 1/10th of that, you can have 96TB (80-ish TB usable) in one of our JackRabbit JR5 units.
Yeah, I know. 6 year old technology versus modern technology. We can sink/source that TB of data IO in well under an hour. And deliver it over IB, 10GbE, etc.
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