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To: July 4th
"I need about about 5TB to store all of my DVD and Blu-Ray discs as images, so I'm hoping to see major leaps in storage technology."

I'd like to have about 50TB so I would have a central location to store all of my VMs at work.

15 posted on 04/20/2008 9:57:45 AM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: KoRn
I'd like to have about 50TB so I would have a central location to store all of my VMs at work.

If Fujitsu can do the spec'd density, you just might get it.

I invented RAID-5 (simultaneously with Patterson, et al) at the MN Supercomputer Center in 1986. We used rows of IBM 3380 DASDs hooked to an IBM mainframe acting as a NAS for a pair of CRAY-2s. Each DASD cabinet was 7ft high and 30ft long. The platters were 170GB total, cost circa $2 million.

Today you can buy the same capacity with better speed for $60.

42 posted on 04/21/2008 5:51:09 PM PDT by Gideon7
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