1/2 Petabyte storage servers

optiplexgx270

Hey was in work today ans was told we are getting new servers with half a petabyte of storage. Never heard of petabyte til today and went i looked it up :eek: and they will serve 120000ipo's anyone know what this is? I think its database server related as there is 6 new DB top end quad DB servers + an extra 7 webservers on server 2003. Anyone any ideas what a rig like this is costing?

Aha and 2-4 firewalls new sands and i think that about it.

aidan_walsh

A Petabyte is 1024 Terrabytes, which is in itself 1024 Gigabytes.

Mutant_Fruit

one million gigabytes, or in more usefull terms: 250 million mp3's

leeroybrown

I presume you mean IOPs not IPOs. IOPs are the number of input/output operations a storage device can handle per second.

optiplexgx270

I still cant understand 512TB of our current set up (5 years old) we only use about 1-2TB

I heard €2mill for the lot. Sound right?

Ba$tard

I still cant understand 512TB of our current set up (5 years old) we only use about 1-2TB

I think we should be buying shares in your company based on the forecasted IT infrastructure demands over the next 4-5 years.

512TB if you wanted to go the 'lidl' route with SATA drives on the back end will cost you roughly 420 million euro, thats going the cheapo Transtec;

80 of these yokes ;
http://www.transtec.de/D/D/products/diskstorage/transtecPremiumRAIDs/transtec6100SATA-RAID.html

Go with the more high end stuff which is intelligent and actually redundant and its seriously expodental, probably talking in the area of 12million$ for proper kit that an IT manager worth his salt would stand over.

J.

BigEejit

there is no single box that could store 500TB or more ....thats 1250 of the largest available disks (which are IDE) and thats with no raid protection... you are more likely to be getting a 50TB box...

Pinhead

I would love to see the full specification of your "512TB of storage", as I refuse to comprehend it. I mean, do you work for Google or what?

Could you host mental amounts of warez for me?

leeroybrown

Off the top of my head, quite a few storage products are able to export 512Tb as a single device/mount/partition if you can afford that much hardware. Perhaps that is where the figure comes from.

optiplexgx270

BigEejit

Im not talking about one single box. I tought i heard wrong in the meeting but was talking to ppl afterwards and was told it was definitly 512Tb. Funny a new guy in work mentioned buying shares after hearing this too but its a Ltd.

Chalk

*requests root...

rsynnott

It's prob'ly a SAN of some sort, and I'm sure 512TB is the max available, rather than what you're actually GETTING