he actually was thinking abut NAS instead of SAN. ;-) So I
have changed my subject line. Any recommendation for small
scale NAS?
Best,
Shing-Shong
On 03/16/2012 11:30 PM, Mark Krenz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 02:59:12PM GMT, Paul Purdom [pwp@cs.indiana.edu] said the following:
>> I just had to remark that 10 TB being small seems funny to me, given the
>> amount of memory I use to get by with.
>
> Yes, however for a SAN that is small. Where I work we have SANS near
> 100TB. And we're on the low end compared to some very big companies.
> There really is a lot of waste though. People don't know how to properly
> manage their data.
>
> I once calculated that at the rate we're going, by the time I'm 85
> years old (2061). We'll be in the yottabyte of storage era. Of course
> there are all kinds of obstacles to get there, but so where there in
> getting to GBs and TBs.
>
> http://suso.suso.org/xulu/A_Yottabyte_of_storage
>
> 110YB would approximately be enough to record the entire lifetime of
> every person who has ever lived in HD.
>
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