If you were completely nuts you could put 72 of those 10TB drives in a 4U server...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847DE16-R1K28LP.cfm On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Jay Weekley <par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote: > How long until we see the first petabyte hard drives? > > Josh Reynolds wrote: > >> >> I'm about to do the exact same thing. >> >> ~28TB onsite at the NOC to another of our locations connected via >> 4x10Gbps fiber to an identical box for mirroring. >> >> On Apr 3, 2016 9:41 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com <mailto: >> eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> All of my hypervisor machines and guest xen PV and HVM machines >> are now on fast SSDs... The on-site backup server is still RAID10 >> HDD based for $/GB reasons, it doesn't need fast throughput, and >> its twin offsite machine is also HDD based. >> >> Interestingly for many 'enterprise' applications you don't need >> that much disk space at all, if things are set up right. So you >> can use expensive and high quality SSDs. Example, the >> Sugar/SuiteCRM VM has 20GB of disk total allocated to it and is >> using maybe 4GB of that, of which 85% is the operating system itself. >> >> I remember buying a 240GB Intel SSD for $1/GB three years ago for >> my laptop, and thinking that was great. Now a Samsung 850 Evo 1TB >> is nearly the same price. >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Josh Reynolds >> <j...@kyneticwifi.com <mailto:j...@kyneticwifi.com>> wrote: >> >> I'm about to move all of my arrays to SSD in the next few >> months. 1-2TB SSDs are coming way down in price. >> >> I did just build a new NVR, but it's raid10 HGST 8x2TB. >> >> On Apr 3, 2016 9:35 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" <eric.kuh...@gmail.com >> <mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Yeah, I agree. Unless it was for video editing temporary >> disk space. Or a setup like Backblaze's storage pods where >> data is redundantly stored across multiple unique machines. >> >> I wonder what the rebuild time is if you set up an array >> like seven 10TB in mdadm RAID6 and an eighth drive as >> hot-spare. 18 hours? >> >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Josh Reynolds >> <j...@kyneticwifi.com <mailto:j...@kyneticwifi.com>> wrote: >> >> I would be terrified to run anything but raid10 on those. >> >> On Apr 3, 2016 9:30 PM, "Eric Kuhnke" >> <eric.kuh...@gmail.com <mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >> As compared to the 6TB price which is about 4.3 >> cents per GB: >> >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145973&cm_re=6TB_HGST-_-22-145-973-_-Product >> >> >> 10TB: >> >> http://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/20160401_751351.html >> >> It's about 7 cents per GB... Price is high so far, >> but if you need a huge amount of storage in a >> small space (like a 1U server with 4 x 10TB + 1 >> boot SSD on motherboard), can be worth it. >> >> >> >> >
