On 10/29/10 13:18, Greg Lindahl wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Hearns, John wrote:
Quite a perceptive article on ZDnet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/the-end-of-raid/1154?tag=nl.e539
This has been going on for a long time. Blekko has 5 petabytes of
disk, and no RAID anywhere. RAID went out with SQL. Kinda funny that
HPC is slower to abandon RAID than other kinds of computing...
I think it's making a pretty wild assumption to say search engines and
HPC have the same I/O needs (and thus can use the same I/O setups). If
RAID isn't gone from the domain, there is probably a pretty good reason
for it. Also, I'd be blown away if Blekko wasn't doing it's own
striping/redundancy - even if they aren't using RAID 0 or 1 by the book,
they probably are using the same concepts (though hand-spun for search
engine needs). I don't think the "whole internet" takes up 5 petabytes,
so they probably have a couple copies for redundancy and performance or
heterogeneous disk arrays to service more/less accessed items on the net.
ellis
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