Computer with Largest Hard Disk Space

Depends what you mean by 'computer with largest hard disk space' - most of what is being talked about here is either SAN or NAS attached, so not strictly specific to the computer.

You could have a 1PB SAN array attached to a Pentium P3 using iSCSI if you wanted, wouldn't make it right though! :p

At work I manage around 500TB of SAN and NAS disk, but we're still very small in comparison to other companies that I know of who run in the 10's of PB SAN attached.

In the real world of corporate data centres like ours disk capacity or money is not usually the limiting factor, it's more likely data centre floor space and power requirements.
 
I'd have though the rather secretive peeps at GCHQ would have a fair amount, I seem to remember hearing somewhere that they are very near the top of the charts for storage in the world, just under their Yank counterparts. I'd assume that any figures floating around would be estimates as I'd doubt they'd release exact figures.
Having a quick google their near line storage is one of the biggest in the world so who knows what their online storage is like.
 
CERN and the other colliders around the world spit out a LOT of data. When I went to see one a few years ago at Rutherford Appleton (sp?) I remember them saying that they produce so much data it is all kept in volatile ram and then someone has to make a call quickly as to whether it is valuable enough to dump to disk before it is lost.

Rotty said:
EVA are midrange , wll be one of the XPs ( high end storage ) and will be called the XP24000
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When I worked as a SAN support guy I could only dream of looking after EVAs. Ever heard of HSG80s? Neither had most of the HP engineers I met* :p


*To be fair most of the engineers were pretty good, it was always the people back at base who could never find the parts. Don't get me started on EMC. Rudest bunch of people I ever had the displeasure of meeting, on the whole.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
CERN and the other colliders around the world spit out a LOT of data. When I went to see one a few years ago at Rutherford Appleton (sp?) I remember them saying that they produce so much data it is all kept in volatile ram and then someone has to make a call quickly as to whether it is valuable enough to dump to disk before it is lost.


When I worked as a SAN support guy I could only dream of looking after EVAs. Ever heard of HSG80s? Neither had most of the HP engineers I met* :p


*To be fair most of the engineers were pretty good, it was always the people back at base who could never find the parts. Don't get me started on EMC. Rudest bunch of people I ever had the displeasure of meeting, on the whole.
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I have actua;lly been trained on HSG80s but never worked on one and probably unlikely to now

I mostly work on Superdomes and XPs
 
I still see a lot of HSG80s here and there. Most of them are not even under maintenance as i'd imagine the support costs would be quite high.

One account uses one just for the IT scratch area, files, MP3's, etc.

Another uses it for really unimportant data and stuff they want to keep of better arrays.
 
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