60x 4 TB hard drives

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Osayidan wrote on 2015-07-30 16:14

https://404.sh/articles/dell-powervault-md3460-511/

This customer ordered 3 like this.
Over 200,000$ of storage hardware.
Lan wrote on 2015-07-30 18:10

Well damn. That's a lot of porn.
Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2015-07-30 20:21

One dies. Have to check all 60 to figure out which one.
Osayidan wrote on 2015-07-30 20:45

Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1283105:
One dies. Have to check all 60 to figure out which one.

Even a 100$ raid card will tell you which drive is dead.
Yoorah wrote on 2015-07-30 22:00

They're using ZFS, so they don't even need that $100 RAID card to tell them which drive died. xd
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2015-08-04 20:10

Wow. How huge of a business/agency do you need to be to make this a viable purchase?
Osayidan wrote on 2015-08-04 22:12

Quote from Campylobacter jejuni;1283454:
Wow. How huge of a business/agency do you need to be to make this a viable purchase?

They sell the planning and implementation of things like this for events:
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