Cleversafe Announces 10 Exabyte Storage System Configuration

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Now how much processing power would it take to analyze that much data? I also wonder what's the power consumption, and the cost of the construction/maintenance of the system.

 
^^^ No kidding. Hey we just demonstrated proof-of-concept for a system that aids federal government surveillance with the potential to profit from it is a near certainty. I wonder how many cloud options out there are just as ready to assist the feds but aren't so blatant about it. In other news damage control in Thailand is still underway.
 
[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]How much would all those Hard Drive weigh?[/citation]

Surely less than Abrahams tank... and supporting all the *paranoid* comments on government control, more effective...

OK, both drive density and bus / network speed increase make it possible for that amounts of info, and this is quite a recent achievement, but remember that just going the huge way "a lo grande" is not a problem for the government...
 
Pretty crazy to think back in 1996 the Internet was estimated to be just under 2TB in total size and the largest storage farm in the world was about 75TB. Now we have a single storage solution that is 14,288,400 TB.
 
[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]How much would all those Hard Drive weigh?[/citation]
probably using Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB SAS HDD's so, 690gr each.

But I don't get the numbers.
"21 storage and network racks that include 189 storage nodes of 45 x 3 TB drives to offer a total storage capacity of 25,515 TB. The current configuration also includes 35 PDs per site (893,025 TB) and 16 sites total (14,288,400 TB with more than 4.7 million drives total). In total, Cleversafe offers about 13.6 EB of storage."
so: 21racks X 189 nodes X 45 drives X 16 sites = 2857680 HDD's X 3TB = 8,573,040 TB ?

anyway 13.6 EB = 14 260 633.6TB that's 4753548,2 3TB drives X 690gr = 3279948258grams = 3 279 948.26kg = 3 615.5 tons


COST?
370$ per drive. ofc if you buy thousands price per unite will be much much lower. But then you have to had the infrastructure cost and such which costs even more. But let's calc per drive.
$370 X 2857680 HDD's = $1,057,341,600

running costs
720hours per month
average power consumption per drive 8.25W
Electricity per KWH USA average $0.125

2857680 HDD's X 8.25W X 720h X $0.125 per KWH = $2,121,828 per month


comparative with SSD's:
a 3TB drive has an average power consumption of 8.25W. That's 3TB. for example a 300gb (highest capacity intel 710 enterprise SSD) has an average of 2.2W. so 3TB in SSD's would actually spend more watts then HDD's. 22W vs 8.25W.


When SSD's hit a capacity/performance per watt much better then HDD's they will be massively adopted by datacenters. Demand for SSD's will be insane. More fabs have to be built, much more offer, much more nand memory, prices will sink.
 
[citation][nom]Melchior[/nom]10 Exabytes (EB), or 1,000 Petabytes (PB).[/citation]
Yes, it's kinda sad no one else caught that. It's even worse that the author didn't catch it, but somehow it doesn't surprise me. 1 EB = 1000 PB.
 
[citation][nom]serendipiti[/nom]Surely less than Abrahams tank...[/citation]
Try again!
An Abrams tank weights 68 tons (62 metric tons).

There are 45 HDD per nodes, 189 nodes per PD, there are 35 PDs per site and 16 sites. So, that works out to 4,762,800 HDDs (45 x 189 x 35 x 16).

As Sigma3 quoted above the weight of single Ultrastar 7K3000 3TB SAS HDD is 690gr.

So, the HDDs would weight 3,286,332 KGs (7,245,121 Pounds) or 3,286 Metric Tons (3,622 US Tons).

That means that the HDDs would weight the equivalent of 53 Abrams tanks!!!

 
[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]...But I don't get the numbers."21 storage and network racks that include 189 storage nodes of 45 x 3 TB drives to offer a total storage capacity of 25,515 TB. The current configuration also includes 35 PDs per site (893,025 TB) and 16 sites total (14,288,400 TB with more than 4.7 million drives total). In total, Cleversafe offers about 13.6 EB of storage."so: 21racks X 189 nodes X 45 drives X 16 sites = 2857680 HDD's X 3TB = 8,573,040 TB ?...[/citation]

The correct math is:

45 HDD per nodes x 189 nodes per PD x 35 PDs per site x 16 sites.

So, that works out to 4,762,800 HDDs (45 x 189 x 35 x 16) x 3TB per HDD = 14,288,400 TB

 
[citation][nom]dragonsqrrl[/nom]Yes, it's kinda sad no one else caught that. It's even worse that the author didn't catch it, but somehow it doesn't surprise me. 1 EB = 1000 PB.[/citation]
i did too catch it
 
[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]comparative with SSD's:a 3TB drive has an average power consumption of 8.25W. That's 3TB. for example a 300gb (highest capacity intel 710 enterprise SSD) has an average of 2.2W. so 3TB in SSD's would actually spend more watts then HDD's. [/citation]
No no no... See, you're considering a set of 300GB SSDs. They'll obviously have a higer power consumption, just like 2 500GB drives consume more power than a single TB drive.

SATA based SSDs usually wont have a max power of more than 5w (considering there are many i haven't seen, i'm estimating 5w).

So something like that chiron 4TB SSD wouldn't consume any more power than a HDD.
 
Umm... My internet too slow to need that much storage. At 512 kbps, I wonder how many generations it would take to fill that much storage.
 
[citation][nom]mikewong[/nom]Umm... My internet too slow to need that much storage. At 512 kbps, I wonder how many generations it would take to fill that much storage.[/citation]
Let's do the math...

10 EB = 10,000 PB = 10,000,000 TB = 10,000,000,000 GB = 10,000,000,000,000 MB

512Kb/s = 64KB/s @ 86,400 sec/day = 5,529.6 MB/day @ 365.25 day/year = 2,019,686.4 MB/year

10 EB (10,000,000,000,000 MB) / 512Kb/s (2,019,686.4 MB/year) = 4,951,263.7 years!
 
May be all the porn ever made would fit on there. If it would then somebody probably already has that much storage in his basement and garage.
 
i wonder how long it 'd take b4 this kind of storage become standard in a way smaller form factor of course
maybe when we reach the technology after QFHD
 
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