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I used to work for a large consumer photo site, and we wished we could trade speed for lower cost or lower power consumption. Forget SCSI drives, SATA disks we
by ShabbyDoo 17y ago
I used to work for a large consumer photo site, and we wished we could trade speed for lower cost or lower power consumption. Forget SCSI drives, SATA disks were 10x faster than what we needed for long-tail storage. If a photo became popular, we could cache it forward. The parato-ization of the photos was probably 99.9/0.1. I'm actually surprised that drive manufacturers haven't come out with a slower disk that is cheaper, lower power, and/or more reliable. We could find a zillion places to hide latency from our users.
- wmf 17y agoSeagate Barracuda LP and WD RE-GP are ~6000 RPM disks that are lower power than normal 7200 RPM SATA. Maybe next year they'll come out with ~5000 RPM disks.
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoCool. I wonder what sort of density could be achieved with slow solid state storage. The line between disk and tape continues to blur, I guess.
- siverson914 17y agoCheck out Diomede Storage - it's a cloud storage service that allows you to specify the type of storage (Online, Nearline, Offline) for exactly this purpose. www.diomedestorage.com
- blasdel 17y agoSamsung's new generation of drives is currently only available in "EcoGreen" versions: 5400rpm. Doesn't particularly affect bandwidth when you're at 500gb/platter, though you lose on latency. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152175 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152...