heads
Number of drives: 1,200 maximum
Drive types:
SATA,
SAS
Drive capacity: Available for 4U 60-slot, high-density enclosure:
750 GB or 500 GB 7,200 rpm 3.5-inch
SATA drive...
not created equal. A
Fibre Channel drive might spin at 15,000 rpm, but it's also far too costly and power-hogging to use for low-priority data. Less important files...
to share systems. "We had to push hard to say from now on
the SAN is
the storage," he says.
The compromise Allen reached with users was to reserve relatively...
stored data.
Scalability: There is no hard-coded maximum number of files. Our largest appliance configuration can full index up to 200 million files, assuming 5...