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- From: ivang@cup.portal.com (Ivan - Godard)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Info on large, slow storage wanted (jukeboxes, etc.)
- Message-ID: <65092@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:32:15 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug29.210553.8744@rhein-main.de>
- <1992Aug31.043738.19685@psg.com> <22302@venera.isi.edu>
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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.
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- After you get the hardware solved, you are still going to have to have the
- software to access it. Suggest you look into the Kala persistence
- server at these sizes - they are at kala@world.std.com.
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