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Taverner

(55,476 posts) Thu Feb 7, 2013, 10:03 PM Feb 2013

Would this work? Storage Device, SSD, 8PB for cheap? [View all]

Imagine this

We use commodity HW, and create SAN/NAS device that uses SD Chips

These can be very small, and not need a lot of cooling

Imagine instead of disks, you put in "wafers" that are cards with about 2-3TB of space, and each of these can be added to a storage unit/filesystem that could eventually hold 8PB in under 2U of rack space?

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Would this work? Storage Device, SSD, 8PB for cheap? [View all] Taverner Feb 2013 OP

That is a "wafer" is a sheet with several 128GB SD chips on it Taverner Feb 2013 #1

Yes/No. Cost remains a huge factor. TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #2

Exactly, but say you didn't use SSDs but specifically cheap commodity HW? Taverner Feb 2013 #3

Because if you want petabytes of storage, you need... TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #4

Ahhh makes sense Taverner Feb 2013 #5

What about if you create multiple redunancies, not through RAID Taverner Feb 2013 #8

BTW...why couldn't you use RAID? Taverner Feb 2013 #10

Finite writes make this a problem, and you'll need a logical filesystem that will be a PITA Recursion Feb 2013 #6

What about Hadoop for the FS? Taverner Feb 2013 #9

Doesn't Hadoop rely on an underlying block FS? Recursion Feb 2013 #11

I don't know - but you could use Gluster for the FS Taverner Feb 2013 #12

How about this: format each SIM card with FAT or something similarly fast and stupid Recursion Feb 2013 #13

Hmmm I like that Taverner Feb 2013 #14

you're cool. Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #7