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- From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp)
- Subject: Re: Info on large, slow storage wanted (jukeboxes, etc.)
- Message-ID: <vanepp.715391122@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Aug29.210553.8744@rhein-main.de>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:45:22 GMT
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- vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai) writes:
-
- >I need to design a retrieval system for ~15TB of data, of which ~5TB are
- >retrieved with a high frequency (25 requests/second) and an access time
- >of avg. 30 seconds (max. 120 seconds). Retrieval lacks any locality, so the
- >5TB are real random-access. The rest of the data is still accessed at a
- >rate of 5 requests/second. Here, too, access is completely random.
- >So far I've come up with the following ideas:
-
- >1) Use large (10GB) WORM jukeboxes with many pickers (~40),
- > many drives (~150) and a *real* intelligent scheduler. No cache.
-
- >2) Use 1) for the less-often-retrieved data, and several 625MB-OD
- > jukeboxes with even more drives and a less intelligent scheduler.
-
- >I figure that doing some 25 media changes a second would be a real
- >performance killer. Due to the response time restrictions (30 seconds)
- >there is hardly a chance to build a decent queue for pending requests
- >and schedule them appropriately.
- >So what we really need is 5TB of something like a huge, if slow, hard disk.
- >Is there any such kind of device? Any other ideas? Any help?
-
- >Any kind of information is greatly appreciated (hints, pointers, ideas, etc.)
-
- >--
- >Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)
-
- Seeing all other expensive solutions being proposed, have you looked at
- Creo's optical tape units? Capacity is around a terabyte I believe, and
- access time is said to be 1 minite for the whole tape. The drives are
- however in the $250k range I believe. Since Creo is in town here send
- e-mail if you need an address.
-
- Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
-