Fujitsu announces ETERNUS8000 Model 2100: 1.3PB array

So that one petabyte Symmetrix DMX-3 array from EMC you bought a few months ago just isn't meeting your storage needs anymore? Well Fujitsu's new ETERNUS8000 Model 2100, with its 1.3PB capacity, may be exactly what you've been looking for. Besides those extra 314,572GB, you also get a system capable of accommodating up to sixteen 3.4GHz processors, 256GB of cache memory, and RAID 6 configuration for ensuring data integrity even if two of the 2,760 500GB Nearline FC drives happen to crap out simultaneously. Other nice features include built-in data encryption, multiple automatic backup options, live capacity updating, and iSCSI support for copying files over a network. Although no price has been announced for this storage behemoth, considering that your DMX-3 set you back over $4 million, we imagine that the Model 2100 will also be priced out of the reach of mere mortals.

[Via DailyTech]

[Fuzz @ Apr 24th 2006 5:37PM]

Finally, somewhere to store all my porn!

[chris @ Apr 24th 2006 5:44PM]

and upgradable to 750GB disks for a whopping 2.07PB?

[noise @ Apr 24th 2006 6:02PM]

Besides those extra" 314,572GB" WOW! IM IN!

[vidGuy @ Apr 24th 2006 6:03PM]

From the link: "Sales Target
14,000 systems worldwide over the next two years."

Quite a lofty goal, ya think? ;)

[cycomachead @ Apr 24th 2006 6:10PM]

hmm now I can have an almost infanite amount of ways to destroy M$- that's an awsome amount of storgae, not so on the price

[LD @ Apr 24th 2006 6:32PM]

Trust me, you could lose far more than just 2 drives and still be up and running. Even on a smaller SAN you can lose over 50% of the drives and not lose data. It all depends on how it's configured.

[Benny @ Apr 24th 2006 7:04PM]

Ya...but can it run DOOM??

[rawr @ Apr 24th 2006 7:08PM]

yes, but will it dual-boot OSX and Vista?

[wickedawesome @ Apr 24th 2006 7:59PM]

1.3 PB - 1.0 PB = only 315 GB? Or should that be 314 TB?

[systmatik @ Apr 24th 2006 8:02PM]

#6
Don't forget Open Source Linux :)

#1
Not Enough Space...

[James @ Apr 24th 2006 8:04PM]

@ Wickedawesome...that would be 314 TB, or 314,572GB, as the post sez.

[wickedawesome @ Apr 24th 2006 8:17PM]

/me crosses eyes, falls face first into puddle of his own petavomit

[Mike @ Apr 24th 2006 8:32PM]

Wow i think i may be able to afford just the backup system eventually...if i'm lucky

[Darth Poo @ Apr 24th 2006 8:43PM]

Wow...With that and 26mbps broadband, my share ratio would be freakin' huge. Damn, left my Swiss bank account number in my other 17" MBP and lost the keys for my penthouse in London...damn.

[furtim @ Apr 24th 2006 9:12PM]

Can you all imagine what it's going to be like in, say, 20-50 years when 1.3 PB of storage starts feeling as cramped and inadequate as 1.3 GB seems today?

[cycomachead @ Apr 24th 2006 9:25PM]

dual booting- no way thats a crime
OS X only

[Vexorg @ Apr 24th 2006 9:26PM]

Hmmm... I wonder what kind of MTBF you'd get with something like this? You'd probably need to hire three guys to keep up with swapping out failed drives, and a fourth to stand at the ready with a fire extinguisher.

[erik @ Apr 24th 2006 10:32PM]

bah!! who needs 1.3PB when you can get a HDS TagmaStore with a whopping "32PB of total storage capacity"
thats what i need :)

[Ins @ Apr 25th 2006 5:06AM]

Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success.

[yup @ Apr 25th 2006 6:23AM]

#1. wtf...my thoughts Exactly! (can you read minds?)

[kaius. @ Apr 25th 2006 6:40AM]

So how would games run on this?

Would you suffer any load time at all?

If only some rich kid bought one of these and demo'ed all the games on it..


aaaah that would be a YouTube dream..

[Brian @ Apr 25th 2006 7:48AM]

I think I'll wait until the price is down to 2 million or so. Hard drive prices are falling so rapidly, that's gotta be in only a year or so.

[Saluki @ Apr 25th 2006 9:45AM]

Kind of reminds me of when I paid over $500 for a WHOPPING 10mb external HD for my mac in 1989. I'm guessing that in 10 years this thing will fit under my desk and cost less than $500

[TheChaz @ Apr 25th 2006 9:54AM]

#20 - No games would "run on it." It's a storage array, that's it. It's essentially a really big, really fast verson of a desktop PC with 4 drives and a RAID card.

Also, iSCSI isn't really well described by saying it's for "copying files over a network." That could describe file-level access methods like CIFS and NFS, too. ISCSI is an alternative to Fiber Channel for block-level access.

[Timerider @ Apr 25th 2006 11:03AM]

O.o uhuhhu...*passes out*
Do I see the ulimate gaming computer? 16x3.4Ghz prossesors? If you could fit like 8 of those 1GB ATI graphics cards in there you'd be set for the next 20-30 years.


#15:
Boo-yah!!!

[Timerider @ Apr 25th 2006 11:19AM]

#21
I still have my external hard drive for my IIci. It's like 120mb and it sold for a couple hundred dollars. :)

[Charles Leo @ Apr 25th 2006 4:17PM]

For that kind of money, I'd hope it's quiet...