[Cialug] Maxtor drives

[Neal Daringer]

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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