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The world's first commercial petabyte (PB) storage array

news.zdnet.co.uk — EMC are the first to market on the worlds first > Petabyte array - that's over 1,024 terabytes (2^50 bytes). But it uses 2,400 x 500Gb drives to do it.

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  • scummins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ abuser

    The HDS TagmaStore marketing information is misleading. If you look closely at the TagmaStore specs, you'll see that it can only house a maximum of 332x 300GB disks, for a total of 99.6TB (marketing TB, of course). The 32PB number is called "Internal and External Capacity". This is referring to the TagmaStore's ability to "front-end" storage from other arrays -- it can act as a virtualization gateway, so that hosts attach to the TagmaStore and receive storage from other arrays which are attached to the TagmaStore.

    The EMC array is in fact the first commercially available array that can reach the 1PB mark.
  • robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1First HDD array, perhaps. First PB array, nay- tape.
  • mcrunch2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1It gets better press!
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1/me wants a backup of the Internet. :D
  • mcrunch2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Yep, gotta love them raids. We lost all our data twice due to raid configurations. *pbbt*
  • mcrunch2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1*legal* dowloads of course. :)
  • battybattybatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...But it uses 2,400 x 500Gb drives to do it...."

    Live with it, and what else would it be? 500GB 7200rpm is all that is commercially available right now.
  • mcrunch2, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Solution, add more hum and blinking lights. Eerie music is better.
  • ender52, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2finally, i can store all my music in one place
  • mrfloppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1images? try the manufacturers:
    http://www.emc.com/products/systems/symmetrix/DMX_series/DMX3.jsp
    pretty boring though... only a big black rack-like box to hold all them hard drives.....
  • Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet. Now where's that $4 million I have lying around...
  • Floodle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article says 480 TB costs $250,000 so 1 PB (1000 TB) will cost $4m - how does that work out? - I think they mean 48 TB.
  • boozedrinker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ewwww PETA - I hate that word and the people in the organization ;-)
  • abstractstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1how does this differ from the Archive's Petabox?
    http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
  • andrewpate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now i can store all my "legal" movies, games, apps, music, and por...i mean pics...it was getting hasslesum..(word?)...to backup on DVD...lol
  • jamesburton1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No pictures == No Digg.
  • stedios, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice.. a copy of the net would be neat tho..
  • RichMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1me wanty a 3.5" 1PB harddrive!

    oh yeah, post pics or GTFO. seriously, I don't like hear-say, gimme some pictures or even better, a video of this, plz thx
  • skell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google uses petabyte clusters...have always wondered what that setup is comprised of...
  • beezn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^ didn't even read the title
  • jasqwerty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ floodle

    Exponential overhead?
  • dylanA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"No pictures == No Digg."----jamesburton1


    do you read books without pictures?
  • Dummies102, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I counted 3 typos.
  • selphishnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought after tera was exa, but wikipedia straightened me out... exa is after peta.
  • abuser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What kind of nonsense is this? Am I on Slashdot?

    HDS TagmaStore has been around for a while.
    Quote: Superior scalability: 32PB of total storage capacity including up to 332TB of internal storage
    Source: http://www.hds.com/products_services/universal_storage_platform/
  • mrfloppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@richman
    apart from the imageson the manufacturers site, I don't think a video of a big black box humming, with some lights blinking would be newsworthy... but each to their own and all.
  • blhack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0does anybody know what is stored on these things?

    usenet?
  • Stikes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want to RAID array that so basically your running 1 TB at 500,000 rpm :)
  • tolkachi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"how does this differ from the Archive's Petabox?
    http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php"

    The Archive is _only_ running (1) 100TiB + (1) 80GiB rack.
  • buddyfarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"just wondering: if one of those drives crashes....how difficult would it be to find and replace the culprit? Is there an error designating which drive failed?"

    yep, the error would be like the long cryptic blue screen of death message that you get from windows....without a PhD and a slide ruler you will not be able to figure out which drive it is....and the planets have to be in line, with a full moon...LOL!!
  • jnaina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0finally a solution to my pr0n storage problem. now if I only build me a robotic hand...
  • RadarG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 does anybody know what is stored on these things?

    usenet?

    What ever the customer wants. File servers, databases, Exchange, cluster resources etc. High reliability and fully redundant, data storage is not cheap. The is worth every penny.
  • scummins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From what I can tell the Petabox is a cluster of multiple NAS storage nodes -- basically a big cluster of file servers with some kind of software on top that assists with identifying the node on which particular files reside.

    The EMC array is a high performance monolithic array, built for high performance. And the storage is accessed over Fibre Channel instead of IP, so the transport is much higher performance as well.

    So they're really not at all the same, other than the fact that they both store large amounts of data.
  • fastfood15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats alot of porn
  • Hey15Bob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0just wondering: if one of those drives crashes....how difficult would it be to find and replace the culprit? Is there an error designating which drive failed?
  • MattyP, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Commercially available or not, Archive still did it first. The article (besides having a few too many typos) makes it sound like a petabye storage array is a first-time innovation by EMC, when in fact it isn't. It's cool that they're the first to produce a commercial unit like this, but they didn't exactly innovate like the article makes it appear.
  • ek3s, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's alot of porn
  • scummins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@ Hey15Bob

    It's very easy to find failed drives -- The management product (ControlCenter) will produce an alert notification of the failed drive, with the drive's address. Also, as long as the customer allows it, these arrays have a "dial-home" feature, which means the array calls EMC when a drive fails, and EMC comes onsite with a replacement drive within 4 hours.

    Production data on these arrays is always RAID protected (typically RAID1, RAID10, or RAID-5 / RAID-S), with global hotspares, so data loss isn't an issue.
  • jodamiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Oh is they?
  • Wogna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@ dylanA

    NOOOOOOOO!
  • ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The one from archive.org is not commercially available.

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