{"id":234,"date":"2006-01-25T21:10:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T21:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=234"},"modified":"2006-01-25T21:13:01","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T21:13:01","slug":"terabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Terabytes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the ever increasing storage requirements at work, we have recently acquired one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infortrend.com\/main\/2_product\/a16u-g2421-1.asp\">these<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/A16U-G2421.jpg\" alt=\"Infortrend storage array\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a 16-bay storage array: contains up to 16 SATA-II hard disks, which can be configured into a number of RAID arrays and presented on to up to two SCSI chains to other systems.  Our plan right now is to have two RAID-5 arrays consisting of five 300GB SATA disks each, giving just over 1TB of space in each array (RAID-5 &#8216;loses&#8217; the capacity of one disk per array in order to provide you with redundancy in the event of a failed drive: check the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks#RAID_5\">theory<\/a> &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>This box also has redundant hot-swappable fans and redundant hot-swappable power-supply units.  And, and this was the clincher when opting for this particular model, it has l<em>oads of blue LEDs<\/em> on the front.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it is extremely, <em>extremely<\/em> shiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the ever increasing storage requirements at work, we have recently acquired one of these: It&#8217;s a 16-bay storage array: contains up to 16 SATA-II hard disks, which can be configured into a number of RAID arrays and presented on to up to two SCSI chains to other systems. Our plan right&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=234\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}