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You are jumping on a private plane with one of these devices because of some emergency in a data center... Who are you? What's your job? What kind of choices i

You are jumping on a private plane with one of these devices because of some emergency in a data center... Who are you? What's your job? What kind of choices in life brought you to this point? I really wonder, it's so alien.

haunter 3y ago
Film production crew although it doesn't have a video digital out. But you might not even need it if you are only after storage, 8K RedCode raw is around ~7TB / hours
Sakos 3y ago
It's not that alien. We recently migrated to a different storage provider and used something like this to move 200TB of data. Seems like a fancier version of the Google transfer appliance (https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overview https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overvie...).
SloopJon 3y ago
This could be useful for bootstrapping a shared-nothing cluster or a disaster recovery node. A comparable amount of space in a storage array might occupy a 2-4U chassis, which would be somewhat less convenient to transport. This thing isn't going to be cheap, so you'd probably want a more frequent transfer to justify it. Maybe sneaker net database journals or backups every week?
jauer 3y ago
TAA-compliant, so some portion of the target market is US government and related contractors.
elorant 3y ago
A data center has backup plans. This is more for data on the go. Think of a fashion show where the production shoots tens of TBs in high resolution and they can’t afford to setup a server room because it would be impractical. You get one of these and you’re done.
orbital-decay 3y ago
Radio astronomer working with VLBI, for example. (less boring than large corporate data migrations)
raihansaputra 3y ago
Not datacenter related but i recall someone had a job of being a data mule between California and Australia to ship dailies to the VFX studio (in Australia) by hopping on the flight every day. I can imagine something like this (smaller) to be carry-on.

haunter 3y ago

Film production crew although it doesn't have a video digital out. But you might not even need it if you are only after storage, 8K RedCode raw is around ~7TB / hours

Sakos 3y ago

It's not that alien. We recently migrated to a different storage provider and used something like this to move 200TB of data. Seems like a fancier version of the Google transfer appliance (https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overview https://cloud.google.com/transfer-appliance/docs/4.0/overvie...).

SloopJon 3y ago

This could be useful for bootstrapping a shared-nothing cluster or a disaster recovery node. A comparable amount of space in a storage array might occupy a 2-4U chassis, which would be somewhat less convenient to transport. This thing isn't going to be cheap, so you'd probably want a more frequent transfer to justify it. Maybe sneaker net database journals or backups every week?

jauer 3y ago

TAA-compliant, so some portion of the target market is US government and related contractors.

elorant 3y ago

A data center has backup plans. This is more for data on the go. Think of a fashion show where the production shoots tens of TBs in high resolution and they can’t afford to setup a server room because it would be impractical. You get one of these and you’re done.

orbital-decay 3y ago

Radio astronomer working with VLBI, for example. (less boring than large corporate data migrations)

raihansaputra 3y ago

Not datacenter related but i recall someone had a job of being a data mule between California and Australia to ship dailies to the VFX studio (in Australia) by hopping on the flight every day. I can imagine something like this (smaller) to be carry-on.