Can you beat *this* drive space? :)

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br0adband

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Friend of mine does some pretty serious mapping work (and other things also). They need to have quite a bit of drive space for doing this kind of work so I asked him what his drive space looked like once... this was the pic he showed me. Needless to say I'm very jealous of the amount of space, but not the cost involved in creating it.

http://home.earthlink.net/~br0adband/Don't_You_Wish.jpg

:D

All I could say was DAAAAAAAAAYUM...

br0adband

ps For some reason I can't label the link properly, maybe something going wrong with the forum software.
 
Get a pic of his case! With that much space we gotta be looking at a huge server case!
 
What I was told was they used these drives primarily:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st173404lw.html

There are 14 arrays with 9 drives in each array and some larger capacity drives also thrown in for good measure. Mind you I haven't seen this hardware personally but I believe him.

br0adband

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Obviously this isn't all in one case since 9 x 14 = 126 drives at the bare minimum

:p
 
Woah! I'd be happy with just one of those huge hard drives. Then again, you can never have too much space, can you? ;)
 
Looks like a setup used at a Video Post Production facility.
I wouldn't mind having half of that space.
 
Originally posted by [H] - WRX
They are all networked "mapped" drives. You can tell by the icon.
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what does it mean when they are notworked?
does it mean like that the harddrives in the networked conbined together?
 
IBM has a data mining project that actually pulls down all of the data on the internet. Last recent article had it at 517,000 GB and growing at somewhere around 2500 web pages a day.

Crazy amounts of storage.
 
Originally posted by xdviper
what does it mean when they are notworked?
does it mean like that the harddrives in the networked conbined together?
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it's that all that drives aren't physically in one system - they are spread over the networked comps...
 
Wow just wow look at all that space. I am happy to just have 500gbs worth of space but that is insane. Also that ibm data program man I would just love to see all the arrays they have setup to have that much space.
 
That is some massive storage going on. My 160GB looks puny, but I don't have to compensate...
 
Friend of mine just built a server for himself with 2TB of drive space. That's 8x250gb HDDs. Next time Im over there, I will snag some pics for you.
 
The people at AVSForum often store VOBs of their entire DVD collections on NAS hardware. 1 TB isn't unusual, and there are several 5+ TB examples.
 
lol, oh man. I've gotta post that pic of the time when my BIOS reported my old 120GB drive as a single 735GB lol
 
Originally posted by The Hockster
Woah! I'd be happy with just one of those huge hard drives. Then again, you can never have too much space, can you? ;)
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They aren't physical drives
 
ive used 30 gb of 120.... and my 40 slave err i mean secondary :D is full of anime

but still... damn even if its over a network.... HOw can you even think about filling 7000+ gb

Time to start building 4 TB 15000 rpm drives

Im sure this guys would snag a few thousand of em

My computer would shit itself if it had to search through all of those to find a file

Or shit what about defraging

Or disk cleanup... it took me 1 hour to clean up 1 gb of shizzle files on my pc..... thats with 30 gigs used. That means he would have around 19 gb of files to clean up... my computers temps would go up to like 70C and have direahha
 
at my place of work we have 2000gb disk setups for all the video equipment we have to record on at the detention center. we have several of them
 
wow, 7.9 TB sounds like so much, although it's probably not that much for a large company like that :D Ahh...the amounts of useless crap i could store w/ that much space! :D
 
Insane. I was hoping for a more Earthly figure so I could stand a chance of competing. My 240GB (120x2) seems so small...and my house only has a total of about 488 GB including dead drives. With what xonik said, I wonder how big the Disk Servers of Hollywood are...obviously they have much more data than the 6-9GB (MPEG2 Compressed) DVDs they sell us...it makes me want to cry... :( :D
 
He's got nothing on this guy.

lots%20of%20hdd's.jpg
 
Originally posted by SocceRich20
He's got nothing on this guy.
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there's only like 22 drives in there..

max space he'll have is 250GB drive, 22X250 = 5500
 
I work at a pharmacutical company in the UK and we have a 27 Terabyte EMC NAS. It s a box like twelve feet wide by 7 feet high full of 72GB SCSI's :) it cost 1.5 million UKP and we're running out of space !!!
 
Originally posted by SocceRich20
He's got nothing on this guy.
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omg, is that all IDE? I can't even image the drain on the PSU when they all decide to spin up at once. Wow.
 
Bloody hell... I want to know how much that thing is worth lol.

It's the same case as mine, anyone know where I can get those HD fixing brackets in the UK? I hate having the drives at the back.

It seems so illogical, right above the psu as well lol.


I can't quite believe that they are running from a single psu, thats just nuts.


Hmm, in total I have 410GB available. Thats 3x120GB, 1x40GB, 1x10GB, all working and sweet.
 
ok so lets say you have more than 26 drives (none being RAID'ed)
will windows start handing out drive letters like AA:, AB:, AC:, AD:.......ect?
 
Originally posted by cbachor
ok so lets say you have more than 26 drives (none being RAID'ed)
will windows start handing out drive letters like AA:, AB:, AC:, AD:.......ect?
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Dont think so. You'd have to use Dynamic Disks Id think. Or Raid.
 
Originally posted by SKiTLz
Dont think so. You'd have to use Dynamic Disks Id think. Or Raid.
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You could use mount points and have them look like sufolders under c:\, etc.
 
So what... At work, my IBM AIX server has 3.5 TB of space (An EMC SAN) for it's Oracle DB. Space is cheap these days folks!
;)
 
Ok, that pic earlier in this thread is a good one but iirc that guy has just over 1TB of storage. I saw that pic a few YEARS ago when a 20GB drive was ridiculously expensive.

Anyway, here's the funny thing about this story:

Recently this guy that owns that 8TB array hardware needed to delete some files. *Some files* meaning over 3 MILLION JPGs. He said it took a little over 7 hours to delete all the files -- and he was deleting them from the Command Prompt using wildcards to wipe out entire directories, not using Explorer (which is slow as hell because it caches the deleted files).

I wished him luck, that was about all I could do for him.

:)

br0adband


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And yes, I've told him he could boost his performance on the arrays by turning off the Indexing Service but because of the way they use the arrays and the enormous number of files involved they have to use it for the search functions.
 
Love too see the guys backup solution.... Someone would be royally pissed if he lost it all.
 
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