Checkout the Isilon storage range;

www.isilon.com - Strong focus and customer base on video and image storage. They are extremely scalable clusters. You just plug another one of their modules in when you want more performance. Scales to 150 TB in a cluster using GigE or infiniband SAN connectivity. They are pretty impressive, won't surprise me if one of the big storage behemoths tries to buy them out.

If you have the SAN storage under control on the back-end, you can always look at the clustered front-end to improve performance with a solution like that offered by Polyserve. www.polyserve.com

These clustered front-ends are something I think Netapp are aiming for with the integration of Spinnaker/SpinFS into their product offering. Added unified namespace across the storage pool and some automated provisioning, it should be a very impressive offering. 10 Gigabit Ethernet and virtualised iSCSI would be nice too (and no, iSNS doesn't do this). Question is, will NetApp get it all to market in time?

All fun stuff and a great time to be in storage.

Aaron

-----Original Message----- From: Maren S. Leizaola [mailto:leizaola@hk.com] Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 7:52 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: 10TB storage options.

I've got a customer that is looking for a 10TB system to store in bound streaming video. Which they delete after 60 days.

So far from the requirements I think SAN is more suitable as they need very fast throughputs when processing the video (sequential reading.)

So far SATA based solutions win over FC and SCSI based HD's as the volume of drives needed is substantial.

What good FC + SATA SAN can you guys suggest?

- If the customer connect directly the storage box to the server via FC?

- If the customer uses a FC switch and allows multiple servers access to SAN?

I am asking as I recal someone posting something a while back on this subject.

Maren.

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