Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Re: fast storage? Message-ID: <3615@eos.UUCP> Date: 14 May 89 00:35:23 GMT References: <1264@mmm.UUCP> <5427@videovax.tv.Tek.com> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Distribution: comp Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 28 In article <5427@videovax.tv.Tek.com> bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey) writes: >In article <1264@mmm.UUCP> schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) writes: >*> In article dove@rocket.UUCP (Webster Dove) writes: >*> >Is there any faster large capacity storage that a Fujitsu 2380A >*> >parallel head 1Gbyte disk (15 Mbyte/sec) that could be used to store >*> >strictly sequential data? >*> >*> A moderately priced disk drive maybe. Pretty high speed for tape. > >This sounds like a made-to-order application for disk-striping. Should you >be considering 10 100M drives? The most recent Usenix proceedings have >some interesting articles on disk farms for UNIX systems... It's all tradeoffs by cost, (custom or otherwise), and requirements. There is the Cray SSD with GB/second transfers (and you get random access) and GW capacity, but it's no micro. And there is the TMC Data Vault. If you have to ask the price, you can't afford. Longish signature follows "Type 'n' now" Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "You trust the `reply' command with all those different mailers out there?" "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {ncar,decwrl,hplabs,uunet}!ames!eugene Live free or die.