I made a TeraByte Server

[Dave Sell]

For $1,000 US. Anyone interested I can post details. It's SATA, RAID 5. Has a spare disk too.

[<ABX]

Hmm... sounds like a good place to store my... movies :P

On a more serious note...

What are you using it for?

Seems like a lot of data to be keeping in one place. (expensive equipment tends to walk way around here)

I got about 750GB between my computers, mostly used for my anime/movies/software/music collections and I'm saidly running out of space :S

[Dave Sell]

Hmm... sounds like a good place to store my... movies :P
On a more serious note... What are you using it for?
Seems like a lot of data to be keeping in one place. (expensive equipment tends to walk way around here)
Its just a server for my collegues and I to have a central place to store all our data in a secure way. And by secure I mean if a disk crashes all our data is not lost. I may sell it to one of them who owns his own business.

[MrSmellyBelly]

you mean terabyte as in 1,000,000 gb???

[<ABX]

No, a TerraByte is 1024 GB

[Dave Sell]

No, a TerraByte is 1024 GB
No, a TeraByte is 1,000,000,000,000 (10^12 or a trillion) Bytes.
A TebiByte would be 1,099,511,627,776 (2^40) Bytes.

Incedentally a GigaByte is 1,000,000,000 (10^9 or a billion) Bytes.
A GibiByte is 1,073,741,824 (2^30) Bytes.

http://helios.augustana.edu/~dr/kibibytes.html

[<ABX]

meh... too lazy to clairify the difference anymore. nothing like pissed off customers that just bought a 120 GB harddrive and came back to ***** because we ripped them off 9GB.

I actually had to get out a pen and paper to explain it before one of them calmed down.

[Dave Sell]

meh... too lazy to clairify the difference anymore. nothing like pissed off customers that just bought a 120 GB harddrive and came back to ***** because we ripped them off 9GB.
I actually had to get out a pen and paper to explain it before one of them calmed down.
The "easy" way would be to say a TeraByte is 1,000 GigaBytes (not 1024). MrSmellyBelly had asked if I had a million GigaBytes! That would be an ExaByte!

[Halsafar]

Why store movies definetly on your comp? burn them to dvd, thats wat they are there for.

Animes are usually tough, .mkv, .ogg files are not an easy converion, takes a lot of DVD's but its a lot easier than bringing your HD to your friends house.

I've got 1 80GB HD and I haven't stopped to worry about space since I keep a good burn download system.

unless your one of those people i love who share all day :)

[Dave Sell]

This server is used for business applications. There are no movies on it. What would I do with a TeraByte of movies? I like it because it was pretty cheap and reliably hosts my sensitive data. If a disk fails, I have a ready spare just waiting to be plugged in so I won't be down for long.

[<ABX]

Why store movies definetly on your comp? burn them to dvd, thats wat they are there for.

Animes are usually tough, .mkv, .ogg files are not an easy converion, takes a lot of DVD's but its a lot easier than bringing your HD to your friends house.

I've got 1 80GB HD and I haven't stopped to worry about space since I keep a good burn download system.

unless your one of those people i love who share all day :)

My monitor is a decent 17" and most anime looks better on the monitor (mostly because of the aspect ratio) and on some anime the hard subtitles appear partly off-screen :(

Another problem about puting the anime on dvd is dvds can be lost easily. (I still can't find one of my FMA dvd :mad: ) It's been a while since I lost a hard drive :D

Most of my friends bring their computers over for me put in new parts/reinstall so they usualy just grab anything they want of the 100mbit network connection :D

External Hard Drives are always an option.

[plenderj]

Booyeah ;)
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=291164

[WilliamRobinson]

WOW....iv saw 200 TB all in about 300 computers each machince has something like 4 X 200GB there all networked up to the master computer and it clusters the HD's together to make it look like one drive ... the 300 computer was just an estimate work it out to see how many computers there would be....

[WilliamRobinson]

Oh yeah and as you might guess the hard drive does run rather slow and its used for storing companys data like a back-up factory sort of and you pay montly to get you stuff back up

[WilliamRobinson]

AAHH WEEE!! I WAS JUST TALKING to my mate (his dad own the company)......i just a bit mixed up its 480TB :)
and 300 computers with 4X400GIG

So sweet...and its called a datacentre

[Dave Sell]

AAHH WEEE!! I WAS JUST TALKING to my mate (his dad own the company)......i just a bit mixed up its 480TB :)
and 300 computers with 4X400GIG
So sweet...and its called a datacentre
That would mean each node in the cluster is using RAID0 (stripe set) for their configuration. That means if a single disk dies, the whole node dies permanently. I wonder what they do for redundancy?

[WilliamRobinson]

That would mean each node in the cluster is using RAID0 (stripe set) for their configuration. That means if a single disk dies, the whole node dies permanently. I wonder what they do for redundancy?
not the whole node, each node, of 1.6TB is self-contained and every customers data is written to 2 seperate nodes if a drive fails, there's a backup

[Dave Sell]

not the whole node, each node, of 1.6TB is self-contained and every customers data is written to 2 seperate nodes if a drive fails, there's a backup
Each node is a seperate computer, right? Each node will be a stripe set of 4 400GB, equal to 1.6TB. If any one of the four of those disks fail the whole node loses all its data.

If you say that each node is redundacized (sp? lol) by another node, then your numbers don't add up. Either there will have to be 400 nodes, not 200, or the realized disk size will be 240TB, not 480TB.

[WilliamRobinson]

the backup nodes are the slower units that have been replaced, because they dont use all the space..in fact nowhere enar all of it so they only need a smallish backup 100 TB or so, which is compromised of older replaced nodes whilst the new ones which are faster are home to the primary data which can be accessed and changed very fast


Lol sorry for using Small and TB in the same sentance :P

[WilliamRobinson]

480TB of space and more nodes, not sure how many, that have about 100TB of storage, when they need more storage, they replace the oldest node from the "new lot" with a new one, and place that into the backup lot if that makes any sense to you

[Dave Sell]

480TB of space and more nodes, not sure how many, that have about 100TB of storage, when they need more storage, they replace the oldest node from the "new lot" with a new one, and place that into the backup lot if that makes any sense to you
Yep! :thumb:

[WilliamRobinson]

Finally :P :D :thumb: