[Cialug] Maxtor drives

Theron Conrey cialug@cialug.org
Tue, 17 May 2005 16:34:45 -0500


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Neal Daringer wrote:

> you forgot the nsa? oh wait. they have several petabytes of storage. 
> my bad.
>
>
> other than government agencys, what other reason would you see a 
> single entity
> needing even a petabyte worth of storage?
>
> Quoting "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave@58ghz.net>:
>
>> A 100tb?  Do you do genetic research? Are you google?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 16:21, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, but the failure rate isn't as high as you would expect.  We 
>>> currently
>>> replace one drive every 2 weeks and we have 100TB of disk in the 
>>> clarion
>>> arrays.
>>>
>>> > Hopefully they made those ide drives hot swappable with a bunch of 
>>> hot
>>> > spares.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 14:48, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
>>> >> EMC uses Maxtor IDE drives in their Clarion disk arrays.
>>> >>
>>> >> > You don't see RAID manufacturers using Maxtor or Western
>>> >> Digital...wonder why?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
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