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324 disks takes up most of a row. When we had to do service maintenance in Canyon Park (fun with NT 3.51 and 4.0, before the days of Terminal Server) I'd walk o
by enigmo 13y ago
324 disks takes up most of a row. When we had to do service maintenance in Canyon Park (fun with NT 3.51 and 4.0, before the days of Terminal Server) I'd walk over to TerraServer and admire it's enormity.
- deerpig 13y ago>324 disks takes up most of a row. Not any more. Using high density disk enclosures, you can fit that many disks in a third of a rack, and if each disk held 4.5TB you'd have almost 1.5PB of storage! What an astonishing change in only 15 years!
- gaius 13y agoJust under 20 years ago when I got started in this racket, 30G was consider a huge database, cutting edge stuff, requiring experts and special techniques. Nowadays a serious DBA doesn't blink at 30T.