Posted on 11/20/2012 9:42:37 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Show me a 10K RPM with 128 MB cache and we’ll talk. Not saying this isn’t great for the likes of EMC. We’ll be able to get 75 TB of data in a single 25-disk 2.5” SATA III shelf, which is insane, but the seek times for data won’t be astronomical at 7.5K RPM.
Wow, 4TB. I could put a few more movies on that :-)
I don’t know...My MacBookPro 15” Retina has 768GB of solid state memory....nothing moving in this bad boy....I can live with the smaller memory.
Is it a helium filled drive?
That’s a lot of porn.
By memory, I believe you mean hard drive space. Memory and storage are different things, but I completely take your meaning.
And I don’t disagree with you. I have a 3 TB NAS in my office for long-term storage and bulk storage of music and system backups. I’ve not even used 50% of the total space.
In an enterprise, however, storage is a big dollar IT expense and the more you can cram into a smaller space for a smaller price, the more will be purchased.
Probably still 80/90 iops though. Unless it is mirrored (which incurs a write penalty) or in a layered volume its not probably not going to be blinding performance.
I don’t think the purpose is for performance but for RAW disk. Just RAID5 20 of them and you’ll have more redundant storage than you can shake a stick at.
Don’t think the wife would appreciate me spending $1600 on 4 of them for my Synology NAS.
Nope, the storage space is solid state according to the documentation I see - no moving parts at all except the keys on the keyboard. I don’t recall off hand what the usable instant memory is but it is substantial. It is ridiculously expensive, but I didn’t pay for it.
Great, now I have to wipe the drool off of my keyboard.
Right... you referred to it as “memory.” I was simply pointing out the mixup in terminology, which is actually quite common.
Memory (Random Access Memory or RAM) is used for caching of programs for quicker access by the processor. Solid state storage is simply a hard drive without spinning disk. I use two 240 GB OCZ Agility 3 SSDs in my gaming desktop and have 12 GB DDR3 RAM (memory).
Enterprise drives typically are for RAID arrays and require different firmware.
A terabyte here, a terabyte there, and pretty soon, we’re talking about real memory.
Okay...all I know is me likee MBP w/R very much....but pricey...
Start a defrag and come back in like 2019...
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