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- cody50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49I'd hit it.
- politech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Dugg for punny title.
- andrethegiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2019 inches... but who's counting?
- valona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Plumbers use ballcocks, inverted nipples, pipe benders, 3/4 inch male tees and hundreds of other faintly amusing terms to describe the materials they use. Terms that could be considered offensive using your line of reasoning. How about you write a letter to the plumbers union asking them to replace these terms with other non-offensive, gender neutral terms.
- BicBall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17http://www.capricorn-tech.com/tb120.html
- podean, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17As a female, I value comedy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Just doing som estimates;
It could hold 30 Million songs (3.5min@192kbps) - that'd be one huge ass iPod.
Also, that could hold a helluva lotta pr0n. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I may disagree with what you have to say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it.
-P Henry
P.S. You're still wrong. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Uh, not really. If it said that, I honestly would not care at all.
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"Don't mod me down. As a female who disapproves of the language used in this male-dominated field, I deserve to be heard."
As an idiot who double posted on a website, you deserve to be modded down. - UrsusMorologus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10hush up and show us your bazongas
- Aninhumer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hey it's using 750GB "hard drives" *nudge nudge*
Happy now? - valona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It's pretty low end stuff to be honest. Good for archiving and business compliance, but not of much use in a 'live' environment. No fibre channel connectivity, so an ethernet connection from each node, which results in even more cabling, thus cancelling out any benefit of its small size. Power consumption is excellent though. It won't have EMC quaking in their boots.
- podean, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Easy for you to say, Andre.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5120 Terabytes, wow, that's a lot of copyright infringement!
- rhett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Saying it's a 19 inch rack is pretty missleading given that it's 79 inches high.
- neilmarkellis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm enjoying the aside, it's more stimulating than Mac, Windows, Mac, Windows, Mac, Windows, Ubuntu, Mac, Windows, Mac on Windows, Windows on Mac, Mac, Mac, Mac, Ubuntu!
- Orbatos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Unlikely due to distribution in the field, professionals learn to deal with it. Also, it is not in any way intented to be degrading.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"useless without pics"
Google.
http://www.capricorn-tech.com/tb120.html
Also, from the About page, it's interesting who this company is, and how they started:
Capricorn Technologies traces its roots to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization founded by Brewster Kahle to build an “Internet Library”. In December of 2003, Kahle contacted his longtime friend C.R. Saikley with a proposal: develop the Internet Archive’s next-generation storage system. The system would have to be inexpensive to manufacture and operate, it would have to be reliable, and with a target of 1PB, it would be massive.
“We began by evaluating off-the-shelf solutions, thinking that surely there was already something available that met our requirements,” said Saikley, who went on to found Capricorn. “We soon discovered that there was nothing available that achieved what we knew was possible.” Having come to that realization, the PetaBox team began development of their own solution. - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Exactly, ALL rack gear is 19 inches wide. Not that I thought for a second I was that far removed that I didn't know they could put 120TB in 1U, but still.
- theid0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Also, that could hold a helluva lotta pr0n."
But not all of it. :) - oslointhesummer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They should have called it "HAL".
- Kanundra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4learn how to use the reply button
- PsychoPNut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@Ulrika
It just depends on what you're talking about.
Good Example: "I'm going to stick a fat ***** in your ear."
Bad Example: "I'm going to stick a fat boob in your ear."
It doesn't sound right, although it does sound funny.
So instead of complaining, go fix mean some food while you're naked. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Check the TCO, power consumption, and price.
- airstrike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"you could have every reality TV program at your fingertips for a little less than the cost of an average house."
i'm sorry but how is this a good deal? - Jon855, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find this very awesome. Red looks sexy and so fitting. Wait when the 1TB harddrives comes out and this thing will be sporting 4TB per rack... Much more than the 4x750 ones :)
- kounavi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2iamcitizen this is Voltaire, pal.
- pairanoyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um, I'll take three, no wait, make that 5..
Just ship them to that empty house two doors over from mine and charge them to my CC, GW $hrub. - kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Big hard drives on a nice rack, sexy.
- Jon855, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3While what you said mostly are true, keep this in mind that this were designed to be "Affordable" so hence some features that u mentioned aren't there. Nonetheless it's quite good and I think it's pretty good for some business that couldn't afford the high end ones to rely on this and that may just win their heart at the time being.
- wyzish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Ulrika
As an English Man the word "Rack" holds no sexual meaning.
Nice find,nice title,dugg - chrisrosa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ho-hum headline. 80W is the selling point here. Nexsan's SATABlade is 1U and has 8 bays which would give you between 4TB and 6TB (with either 500GB or 750GB drives), totaling 168TB/252TB for a 42U rack (19.3Kw), or 188TB/282TB for a 47U rack (21.5Kw). This is raw storage; RAID 5 or 6 would be less. Either way, a full rack of SATABlades would run between 19.3Kw and 21.5Kw compared to 3.2Kw for a rack of the Capricorn GB3000s. Then again...those GB3000s appear to only have one powersupply, which is awefully scary with that amount of storage.
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ohhh, now I know what this is. It's the Petabox that Archive.org designed a while back: http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe they'll add an Existentialism category to Digg one of these days.
- vern01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Every once in a while I really wish we could post graphical smilies to show people just how funny we think their remarks really are.
:) - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or you could film them yourself in HD.
- lixindi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
omg I think I just got overloaded...
I would hit it, too. - wolver1ne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not the size, it's how you use it. :D
- lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"If you think that is a lot, imagine the Tivo you could make out of one, you could have every reality TV program at your fingertips for a little less than the cost of an average house."
- kounavi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hehe and to be more accurate its Beatrice Hall's idea of Boltaire's philosophy. :P (yeah i know, this is totally irrelevant, but who cares).
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In ten years time you'll have it in one inch and you'll laugh of how surprised you were now
- techbum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. Doesn't even appear to be able to present itself as an iSCSI target either. With this much storage, and the stated benefit of port aggregation on the array, you'd think they would have implemented some SAN capability. Just a big, file level transfer, garbage can for network shares. Although, someone with a storage head that supports JBOD virtualization (NetApp, etc) could probably integrate it with their existing array(s).
- Orbatos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately you are totally correct, nothing but a bunch of epia boards. Except for the rack hardware it's all consumer fare, maybe a decent backup system but I'd seriously question long term reliability, and it's not going to be high throughput.
- BradMurray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been using an 8U enclosure http://www.aicipc.com/productDetail.asp?catid=39&id=187 for over a year that holds 40 drives + 2 OS disks. When filled with 750GB drives I can get 200 drives in a rack for 150TB raw and still have 8U of free space for a switch and power management. I tend to space them out a little and with a hot spare and cold spare per array and another cold spare per chassis, I get 99TB of RAID5 in a rack with plenty of extra cooling and cabling space. The same company (AIC) was also make a drawer-based version that holds 48 drives in 5U (drives mounted vertically) seen here: http://www.aicipc.com/productDetail.asp?catid=38&id=173 . I find that one to be overkill because I have pretty much maxed-out power consumption in a rack with 200 spindles in a rack. I also don't like the idea of having to open the extremely heavy drawer to replace drives. These things are very heavy when loaded with drives.
- neilmarkellis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@MrKenobiSir
Yeah, we'll have an existensialism section that contains people describing the relative meaning and subjective reality of Apple Macs, or PCs running Windows or Apples Running WIndows or PCs running OS X or ..... Ubuntu ...
After all is a Mac running Windows really a Mac as the identity of a Mac is at least to sometent intrinsically linked with that of the Operating System. If we take the operating system away from the Mac is now truly a Mac or is it now a PC with the potential to be a Mac.......etc.... - .Steven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Pictures???
- airstrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1laughing at the incredibly-sexist-but-nonetheless-incredibly-funny remark at the end of your post
- flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4that aint the prettiest thing in the world.......
- neilmarkellis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Factor in the cost of the psycotherapy you would need for watching it.
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