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Paper describing the instrument: "The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Wideband Data Recorder System for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telesc
by theoh 9y ago
Paper describing the instrument:
"The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A Wideband Data Recorder System for the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope"
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06024 https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06024
- rikkus 9y agoRelevant part: "Each storage server contains 36 hard drives, each with 6 TB capacity. These are configured as three 11-disk RAID 6 arrays plus 3 global hot swap spares."
- tgtweak 9y agoImpressive if you think in raid 6 you have double a single drive's write speed (not counting cache). They'd need 60+ of those arrays to ingest without back pressure.