If you need a place to store a million gigabytes, look no further than IBM's new TotalStorage controller. "The SVC uses four 2 Gb/s FibreChannel interfaces, a 4GB cache and dual 2.4GHz Pentium 4 to manage heterogeneous hard disk storage independently of application servers." Apparently is can sustain 1Gbps of I/O.

And, of course, it runs Linux. :-)

Nice.

Posted by jzawodn at March 31, 2003 08:58 AM

Reader Comments
# Chris said:

Could you buy me one...please? :)

on March 31, 2003 10:24 AM
# Matt said:

That's a lot of MP3s.

on March 31, 2003 05:31 PM
# Steve Friedl said:

That's a lot of porn :-)

on March 31, 2003 07:19 PM
# Vlad said:

Million gigabytes called Petabyte,
thousand gigabytes called Terabyte,
billion gigabytes called Exabyte

on April 1, 2003 09:48 PM
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