[rescue] even larger disks in a SSA
Steve Sandau
ssandau at gwi.net
Tue May 9 18:15:49 CDT 2006
>>>>>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! ;-)
>
I've not always been spoiled. My first programming was on a PDP-10:
Fortran IV and assembly language. I'm not even sure we had enough
storage to measure in *kilo*bytes. ;-)
Steve
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