Hardware support

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sunday 13 May 2007 04:10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> >  between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration
> >  1U or 2U case
> >  good reputation
>
> Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U.  I'm not
> sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at
> least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether.  The
> most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8.

Hitachi sell 1Tb disks now. (Or at least they advertise them ;)
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/DF2EF568E18716F5862572C20067A757/$file/Ultrastar_A7K1000_final_DS.pdf

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