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From: jthomp@convexs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Disk Striping (description and
Message-ID: <116200004@convexs>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 01:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 01:40:00 1987
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Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!jthomp    Aug 26 00:40:00 1987


/* Written  9:54 pm  Aug 18, 1987 by eugene@pioneer.UUCP in convexs:comp.arch */
Well, I'm glad that all of you Good Bodies find Disk Striping
interesting.  Now, if one or two of you could just go off and build
something, we would be very interested in buying somethin.  I think
we could easily get you a few dozen customers.  Would be nice if it
interfaces with Crays, transfers in excess of 1 GB/sec, etc. etc......
Oh yeah, should not cost more than a Cray itself and hold, say,
1 Terabyte of data (100 GWords? yeah, okay for now 8-).  I'm I
forgetting anything?


Well, here at Convex, we have, guess what!  Disk Striping!
(Hey!)

Current 'stripe' limit is 2Gig, but you can have lots of them.
(sign extention prevents a bigger size.)

And, guess what, it costs less than a Cray.

This should not be confused with an advertisment.  Rather that someone
has done it.