How much storage would you like sir ? Can I have a petabyte please ?

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EMC launches the world's first petabyte harddrive array, the thing consits of an array of 2,400 500 GB harddrives :shocked:

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EMC beat its rivals to the winning post on Thursday when it became the first company to launch a storage array that will hold a full petabyte of data ? easily the largest array that EMC manufactures.

The announcement of the massive nine-cabinet Symmetrix DMX-3 was part of a swathe of announcements that EMC made in London on Thursday on the back of excellent financial results and with the promise that 2006 would be one of the company's "busiest years yet for new announcements".

The company also rolled out several other new products; a new low-end version of the DMX-3 Symmetrix; the EMC Multi-Path File System for iSCSI, which is the company's first IP storage product; and new storage virtualisation products.

The Symmetrix DMX-3 is the company's new standard array that runs from the low-end ? at least low by EMC's standards ? to the high-end petabyte system. They all feature a new 500GB drive which means that 2,400 drives must be assembled to get to a petabyte of total capacity.

The new, entry-level version of the DMX-3 only requires two cabinets and 96 drives for its 480 TB of capacity, but even so will cost a cool $250,000 (£140,000). This suggests that a fully-packed, nine-cabinet DMX-3 boasting a petabyte of storage could cost up to $4m.

According to Dave Donatelli, EMC's executive vice-president for storage strategy, the DMX line represents a change in EMC's strategy. High-end storage arrays "used to be configured for high-performance arrays that are richly optimised, not it is likely to be simpler". With the raw capacity now on offer, "we can put Tier 3 [low-end] applications in this array," Donatelli said.

"This changes the game," added Donatelli. "The highest performance arrays are the most cost-effective."

Storage capacities have ballooned, according to EMC. "Last year we sold more storage capacity than we did in the previous three years," said Eric Shefler, executive vice-president for Europe.

Shefler added that while EMC's business has been booming across the board, the company has been doing particularly well in Europe. "In 2002, Europe, the Middle East and Africa was 22 percent of EMC's revenue," he said. "In 2005 it was 36 percent."

Shefler forecast that this growth will continue across the company. "We had a great year in 2005 and we are forecasting an even better year in 2006...with total revenue in the $11.1bn to $11.3bn range".

EMC says that more than half its business now comes from software and services.
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Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
IDE,SCSI, or FC?
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I am sure they are SATA drives with an external fiber link.
I dont know of any SCSI drives that have a 500GB capacity yet.

 
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Originally posted by: Looney
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
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Why'd you post this in P&N?
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Politics and News ?
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LOL noob! News as in current affairs.
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OK you got me , I was in P&N on another thread and was too lazy to take this to another forum so I just said to myself we need to spice up P&N with some tech news and here it is LOL !


Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
IDE,SCSI, or FC?
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I am sure they are SATA drives with an external fiber link.
I dont know of any SCSI drives that have a 500GB capacity yet.
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External fiber link for harddrives ? First time I hear of a fiber link for harddrives, can you tell me more about it ?
 
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What would be the speed of data access though?
The method of tracking data stored through the system will be a roayl pain for high speed accesses.
 
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Looks like the Fabric is the key. Just another massive directory structure connecting the devices at high speed?
 
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Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Looks like the Fabric is the key. Just another massive directory structure connecting the devices at high speed?
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The complexity of those arrays is amazing, I would never want to trouble shoot one of those in my lifetime :D
 
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Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Looks like the Fabric is the key. Just another massive directory structure connecting the devices at high speed?
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The complexity of those arrays is amazing, I would never want to trouble shoot one of those in my lifetime :D
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It might even take a lifetime:p

And to think that is only a fraction of the capacity of what is upstairs run by mother nature.

 
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I'll truly be impressed when a petabyte of memory is squeezed into a super-fast SD card.
 
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Originally posted by: shira
I'll truly be impressed when a petabyte of memory is squeezed into a super-fast SD card.
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How long do you think that will be? I mean, it obviously won't happen with SD, but some form of small memory card. I say 10 years, max, maybe even sooner than that.
 
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Originally posted by: slash196
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I'll truly be impressed when a petabyte of memory is squeezed into a super-fast SD card.
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How long do you think that will be? I mean, it obviously won't happen with SD, but some form of small memory card. I say 10 years, max, maybe even sooner than that.
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By that time instead of me sitting here infront of a computer all day, I will have a telepathic link from my brain so that I can post even when I am in the WC :D AWESOME!! That will insure 24/7 coverage of AT forums and insure the finer grade of outputed neff, because I am offline twice a day when I need to go to the WC ;) that way I can update you guys about everything :laugh:
 
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Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Looks like the Fabric is the key. Just another massive directory structure connecting the devices at high speed?
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The complexity of those arrays is amazing, I would never want to trouble shoot one of those in my lifetime :D
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It might even take a lifetime:p

And to think that is only a fraction of the capacity of what is upstairs run by mother nature.
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What is that estimated to be?
 
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Think of all the hours and hours of roundhouse kicks from Chuck you could store on that bad boy.
 
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Originally posted by: maluckey
More likely Wal-Mart. They are the worlds largest employer, retailer etc.
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No...

Walmarts database is about 500TB

They would have a ways to go to need one of those.

One of the biggests problem with something of that size is the need for a disaster recovery plan.

Just think of the tape array you would need to do a full backup.

 
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Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
IDE,SCSI, or FC?
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I am sure they are SATA drives with an external fiber link.
I dont know of any SCSI drives that have a 500GB capacity yet.
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It is ISCSI...

It was in the OP.
 
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