[rescue] even larger disks in a SSA

[Mike Hebel]

On May 9, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 18:06, Steve Sandau wrote:
>>>> 136G x 30 disks is like 4TB or something. Even if the heat
>>>> is too much and only half the slots are filled, that is still 2TB.
>>>> Though, I have to remember that the array <-> machine interface is
>>>> 250MB/sec or so?
>>>
>>> That's 250M *bits*/s, or about 30MB/sec
>>
>> Bummer.
>
> 2Gb fiberchannel is about 250MB/sec - slower than U320 SCSI...

2TB of slow storage is _still_ 2TB.

Damn spoiled youngsters!  In my day we had 64k of max program space on 
the PDP-11/44 and WE LIKED IT!  ;-)

Mike
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