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January 28, 2008

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MW08: On The Floor: 42TB RAID

Posted Jan. 28, ’08, 3:30 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Hardware

satabeast1.jpg“This is the hottest product on the show floor!” proclaimed an enthusiastic rep for Nexsan Technologies, who was touting their SATABeast RAID storage unit.

I nodded skeptically as I stared at the the noisy 4U monster sitting on the table. It was hot alright — the fans were going crazy. But understandably so: it was controlling 42 hard drives, totally 42 terabytes of storage. It uses software called AutoMAID to manage drive usage and reduce power consumption, and supports both Fibre Channel and iSCSI interfaces (in the demo, they were streaming six HD-quality videos direct from the RAID to QuickTime on a Mac Pro, and performance was flawless). Oh, and it costs $50,000.

“You’ll write something nice about us, right?” asked the rep.

Sure…if I can get one to review.

“Oh,” she paused. “Well I’m sure we can arrange something.”

No, I was…I was kidding. But thanks.

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1 Comments

Bob said:

But was it REALLY 46,179,488,366,592 (2^40*42) bytes or only 42,000,000,000,000 bytes (or less) after formatting? I gotta lot of pictures. :)

January 28, 2008 4:52 PM

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