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Jun 12, 2007 3:12 PM
Posted by Randall Bennett
How much does 48TB really cost
Posted by Randall Bennett
 Yeah, we get a little excited when we start hearing about giant disk arrays, and this 48 TB monster is no exception. Winchsetser Systems, the company behind the madness, runs a RAID 6 array designed for huge server farms and the like, but we always like to imagine ourselves with 20TB of documentaries, 20TB of feature films and eight terabytes for bittorrent.How much does this array actually cost? We're not claiming this solution is for you, but if you work for any sort of semi-pro organization requiring huge storage demands (IE local television) you might want to think about some similar raid solution. These systems are fully customizable, but we opted for "fully tricked out" since anything less would be too little. We talked with Paul Munafo of the company to figure out how to trick out a system. For a little more than $18,500, you get the base system including 16 750GB drives (12000 GB or 12 TB) every "maxed out" expansion bay after that costs about $11,950, so to max out this unit to its 48 TB max, it'd be a grand total of $54,350, or about $1.13/ GB. (Updated! Thanks Paul!) At that price per GB, it might seem a tad overpriced (DVDs are about $.25/GB retail plus the recorder,) but the company emphasizes that they're at your service to keep your system running as well as possible. They've got specials included like overnight assistance should the rig go down, and a special drive replacement program to get you a replacement drive for the inevitable hard drive failure. Oh, and since it's RAID6, it's redundant enough to survive two drives crashing at a time. As an additional plus, the company has been around for 25 years, so the warranty actually means more than a piece of paper. For an idea of how much space 48,000,000,000,000 bytes really is, it's about 88 hours of uncompressed 1080P (1920 x 1080) 10-bit footage, 196 hours of 720p 10-bit uncompressed footage, 520 hours of uncompressed NTSC, and any better compression than that and our VideoSpace calculator widget breaks. Let's just say it's so much space, it'll blow your mind. If 48 terabytes (or $66 grand) is just too much for you, the flipside of RAID royalty might be a little 2TB action. We wrote up an $1,100 solution that won't break the bank (as much.) but you've got to have a little stomach for the unexpected. All we're saying is if you're not storing over a terabyte yet, you've got to get in the game. Technorati Tags:
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