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TheMadMonk

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2. Yes/No. Cost remains a huge factor.

Reply to Taverner (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 10:50 PM

Feb 2013

Solid state comes in at roughly 100 times the cost per GB as spinning platters.

It's cheaper to pay for the space, the juice, and the juice necessary to run the AC at 20 bellow arctic.

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Would this work? Storage Device, SSD, 8PB for cheap? [View all] Taverner Feb 2013 OP

That is a "wafer" is a sheet with several 128GB SD chips on it Taverner Feb 2013 #1

Yes/No. Cost remains a huge factor. TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #2

Exactly, but say you didn't use SSDs but specifically cheap commodity HW? Taverner Feb 2013 #3

Because if you want petabytes of storage, you need... TheMadMonk Feb 2013 #4

Ahhh makes sense Taverner Feb 2013 #5

What about if you create multiple redunancies, not through RAID Taverner Feb 2013 #8

BTW...why couldn't you use RAID? Taverner Feb 2013 #10

Finite writes make this a problem, and you'll need a logical filesystem that will be a PITA Recursion Feb 2013 #6

What about Hadoop for the FS? Taverner Feb 2013 #9

Doesn't Hadoop rely on an underlying block FS? Recursion Feb 2013 #11

I don't know - but you could use Gluster for the FS Taverner Feb 2013 #12

How about this: format each SIM card with FAT or something similarly fast and stupid Recursion Feb 2013 #13

Hmmm I like that Taverner Feb 2013 #14

you're cool. Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #7