Anyone know of a company that i can hire large hard drive arrays (the ones that come purpose build in there own 19" rack case)
Has to be SCSI 320 and would need to be 750 GB min for off-lineing or 7 TB for on-line.
Any help would be great
Dominic
Hi
7TB is a hell of a sized array made up of SCSI drives, which are inherently smaller sized than SATA drives.
Usually these monsters are hybrid, with SATA drives in the box, but fibre-channel or maybe SCSI connectivity, and bridge circuitry.
Good luck!
Not yet found any hire companys? but if anyone is interested these are the costings i've worked out for slightly smaller setup's (makes my aye's water)
SCSI set up using Hitachi U320 300GB 10K 8MB SCSI Drives
16 bay setup (4.8 TB) £11,880 + VAT
12 bay setup (3.6 TB) £9,000 + VAT
Both would need an U320 Dual channel Card
the other option is as paul said a Hybrid using SATA II backplate with a U320 SCSI Converter
to try an emulate the speed of the SCSI i would go for the Hitachi deskstar SATA II(300) 250GB 8MB Drives
8 bay setup (2TB) £2,288 + VAT
12 bay setup (3TB) £3,030 + VAT
16 bay setup (4TB) £3,908 + VAT
I will probably opt for one of the SATA II setups, as i have been told that this will cope with upto HD SDI uncompressed single channel(4:2:2)(about 4GB per min). However if anyone ever askes us to do Dual channel HD (4:4:4)(about 8 GB per min) then the SCSI 320 is the only route.
If any one knows of a company that hires out ANY HDD arrays over 1 or 2TB it would be useful info.
Dominic
Hi
5.6TB of Apple Xserve RAID is £9399 - 14 400GB drives, usually set up in a RAID 50 arrangement - 7 drives per RAID 5 group, the two groups set up as a RAID 0 pair, and using fibre-channel connections.
apple.com/uk/xserve/raid/
The obligatory multiple channel PCI-X (or PCI-e) motherboard configuration is another inherent hurdle to be overcome ;)