Gadget Metro

I was trying to look for a storage area network for personal use at home but then I came across this beast and this is mindblowing.

On a 4U rackspace, you can actually fit in 42 drives and if you use 3TB drives, that would translate to 126TB. Hmm… it would take me years to fill up that space. But definitely this is good for mid size companies that have entrerprise data. TAt home, I definitely don’t need such data storage systems but during my work before, when I was in charge of our data center, that’s perfect for it.

I haven’t been actively researching for enterprise wide data storage systems so when I came across Nexan’s products, I was like blown away. I didn’t know storage systems has evolved so much over the past few years.

About 7 years ago, when I was still working in the industry, most of the drives are those RAID5 with a couple of GB of data is the norm. So just imagine how surprised I am seeing 4U size products that can handle 126 TerraBytes of data. That’s awesome.

Also, before it used to be so complicated to setup these data storage systems. I remember playing around with partitions, combining disks, mirroring, setting up RAID, but now it looks like there’s some cool wizard that let’s you configure these things. Moreover, there’s this power saving technology. Nobody was thinking about saving power a few years back, but now, that’s one of the important considerations when choosing these data center devices.