Hard drives as a backup medium
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70 TB Backup RAID at the University of Tübingen</a>. Sweet! 576 160Gb hard drives, 24 nodes, each with Dual Athlon 1500+ and 1Gb ECC memory, and a RAID 1 array for the OS, which of course is Linux. Total space 92160Gb, total usable = 69120Gb in Raid 5. There are 4 raid cards per node, and a total of 24 hard drives per node. each raid card has 1 hot spare. each node is connected though Gigabit Ethernet. total cost? a cool $435,000 in Jan 2002’s money. you could get it cheaper now cause drives have droped in price, and so has memory and CPU Prices, ohhh and GB ehternet cards too!