{"id":73,"date":"2007-04-27T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/2007\/04\/27\/big-disks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-27T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T20:42:21","slug":"big-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Big Disks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re probably going to need a large amount of disk space shortly. It&#8217;s basically somewhere to back things up so it doesn&#8217;t need to be terribly fast. I&#8217;ve been having a look around and I&#8217;ve come up with two possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.sun.com\/catalog\/?n-state=http:\/\/catalog.sun.com\/productinfo.xml?site%3dUNITEDKGB%26catalogue%3dFC%26segment%3dFC_R%26item%3dFC_SC_CAT%26group%3d2010%26fid%3d5154%26id%3d13705~~~G!02CB703B76C1!WBPkexcnEpBE33lB~standard~ws-nocache~~@http:\/\/syndicator.sun-catalogue.com\/ukunited\/unitedkingdomcontext\">Sun X4500<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>24TB SATA<\/li>\n<li>4U<\/li>\n<li>Software RAID (ZFS)<\/li>\n<li>well engineered<\/li>\n<li>Sun support<\/li>\n<li>20k with academic pricing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.dnuk.com\/systems\/rs6360-64.php\">DNUK Teravault<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>27TB SATA<\/li>\n<li>6U<\/li>\n<li>Hardware RAID (Areca 110)<\/li>\n<li>DNUK rails are usually horrid<\/li>\n<li>13k full price<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The x4500 is smaller and I know it will be less hassle to physically install. But the DNUK box is a lot cheaper and has more storage. From looking at the hardware specs I think that the x4500 is the superior product but I&#8217;ve no reason to believe the Teravault won&#8217;t get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has had hands-on experience of either box I would really like to here about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re probably going to need a large amount of disk space shortly. It&#8217;s basically somewhere to back things up so it doesn&#8217;t need to be terribly fast. I&#8217;ve been having a look around and I&#8217;ve come up with two possibilities. Sun X4500 24TB SATA 4U Software RAID (ZFS) well engineered Sun support 20k with academic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=73\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big Disks?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}