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!rant
New storage array is looking damn sexy. 24tb - 21 HDD + 6 SSD

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    wait 21*24TB?! jeez... thats like HALF A PETABYTE!
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    Not as impressive as the Hooli Box
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    @620hun (Insert thats a Penis gif)
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    @Mizz141 afaik 21TB harddisk doesn't exist
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    @wowotek and 24Tb hdds? i thought they did tho...
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    LOL @wowotek @Mizz141 each HDD is 1tb each SSD is 500gb. 24tb total storage array size minus formatting overhead...
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    They're a beaut to configure to. It's nice to know when you're paying that many thousands of dollars they actually care about the sysadmin
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    Cool!! Out of curiosity, which filesystem are you using on them? And how many nodes is this distributed across? Maybe RAID of some kind?
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    @Condor Nimble Storage uses a file system called CASL - Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout. It's very cool and crazy fast! We are in the middle of transitioning so nothing important is on this yet.
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    @ThaMunsta hmm, never heard of it. Apparently it uses variable block size which is a bit of a red flag for me at least, because of the performance overhead (there are compression algorithms that do this as well, with such results). Any benchmarks from it, using dd from /dev/zero (or equivalent) to a file or something like that?
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    @ThaMunsta exactly. The biggest harddrive is 12TB helium filled drives.a
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