3T drive prices

T2 is cheaper per bit, but may exceed some pain threshold when it
comes to hooking them up.

Either way, What do y'all think of the 3T drives on the market, like for $200:

http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7152490&CatId=4357


On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Greg Neumarke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/9/2011 3:52 PM, Timothy J. Wielgos wrote:
>
> Here's an interesting problem.
>
> How do you move 25T of data from Chicago to LA?
>
> BDXL media is only 100G each, which would necessitate spanning the data over
> 250 discs, so that's out.  Over the wire?  Yeech.  I can hear the network
> guys screaming now.  The best I've been able to come up with at this point
> is to buy 13 2T SATA disks and span 'em, but that's just plain awkward and a
> bit kludgey...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I can't think of anything cheaper to store data on right now than 2TB hard
> drives. Especially if you don't already own a high capacity tape backup. The
> cheapest 2TB drive on newegg right now is $80.
>
> Is your 25TB of data already compressed or not very compressible? You might
> get by with fewer drives.
>
> Perhaps you can buy only 1/2 or 1/3 of the drives needed and ship them back
> and forth a few times. The shipping could be cheaper than buying more
> drives. Use a backup program to split the data into 2GB chunks and
> reassemble in LA.
>
> Another angle: where will this data reside in LA? Maybe ship the SAN or
> storage array to Chicago, load it up locally over gigabit or faster
> networking, and ship the whole thing back to LA.
>
> This all reminds me of an old quote:
>
> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling
> down the highway."
> —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
> pp. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6.
> (found a reference to it on wikipedia, in the "sneakernet" entry.
>
> -Greg
>
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