 aaronwtPremium
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Woodbridge, VA | 500TB doesn't sound like very much I have over 20TB at home just for me. 500TB seems like a tiny amount for that many people. |
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 DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | Are you sure you're not confusing GB and TB?
and it would (I'm guessing) be database data not the raw content although 500TeraBytes could easily hold all the commercials for the year |
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aaronwtPremium
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| said by DarkLogix:Are you sure you're not confusing GB and TB? and it would (I'm guessing) be database data not the raw content although 500TeraBytes could easily hold all the commercials for the year 500,000GB |
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DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | 512,000GB=500TB
and you say you have 20TB at home (what are you storing?)
I guess your perseption is a bit skewed because you have so very much storage at home
(500TB is alot) |
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| said by DarkLogix:512,000GB=500TB and you say you have 20TB at home (what are you storing?) I guess your perseption is a bit skewed because you have so very much storage at home (500TB is alot) 20TB at home doesn't seem that far fetched. 1.5TB drives can be had for under $200 these days. |
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 kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY | reply to aaronwt
said by aaronwt:I have over 20TB at home just for me. 500TB seems like a tiny amount for that many people. I'm not entirely convinced you know what are you talking about - you have 20TB data or a 20TB database home?
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DarkLogixPremium
join:2008-10-23
Baytown, TX
kudos:3 | reply to fifty nine
I agree its "possible" but still a little much
the 1.5TB drives I'd looked at have been getting bad reliability reviews so I'd want to stick to 1Tb drives and 20 Harddrives in one house why? |
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Dat wood Bead daPoint. said by kamm:I'm not entirely convinced you know what are you talking about - you have 20TB data or a 20TB data base home? He's just talking about the cost of 20TB of consumer grade hard drives. He's trying to figure out what the big deal is when he doesn't have more than $3k into the 20TB he has.
It's just that enterprise drives cost 2x-4x/TB more. The controllers needed to move any meaningful amount of data from one -or 10- of those drives is where the cost begins. Then you have lots of fiber, and switches and the consoles to manage it. A single SAN firmware update can cost more than a consumer grade drive.
Now, 20TB at home wouldn't surprise me. I have around 5TB that is mostly full and could easily fill 20TB by the end of the year. The video feeds from my IP cameras alone can generate 3-5GB/day. Every movie I buy, I rip to my video library. I seem to collect a lot of Linux distros but I only use 1 out of 6 of them. If I didn't control my pack ratting, I'd never stop buying drives. |
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY | said by Bead daPoint :said by kamm:I'm not entirely convinced you know what are you talking about - you have 20TB data or a 20TB data base home? He's just talking about the cost of 20TB of consumer grade hard drives. He's trying to figure out what the big deal is when he doesn't have more than $3k into the 20TB he has. Yeah, thought so... it's not 500TB data in flat files but most likely some sort of 500TB-sized database that has to serve gazillion queries per second.
It's just that enterprise drives cost 2x-4x/TB more. The controllers needed to move any meaningful amount of data from one -or 10- of those drives is where the cost begins. Then you have lots of fiber, and switches and the consoles to manage it. A single SAN firmware update can cost more than a consumer grade drive.
Now, 20TB at home wouldn't surprise me. I have around 5TB that is mostly full and could easily fill 20TB by the end of the year. The video feeds from my IP cameras alone can generate 3-5GB/day. Every movie I buy, I rip to my video library. I seem to collect a lot of Linux distros but I only use 1 out of 6 of them. If I didn't control my pack ratting, I'd never stop buying drives.
Well, 2/4Gb FC hw is cheap and prices are not that crazy for 2-3 years now when it comes to enterprise drives either - however HPC controllers (soul of HPC SANs) and the rest of the stuff (software licenses, staffing etc) makes it a lot more expensive than outsiders think, that's for sure. 
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