Zein's place on the net » ANUSF http://ahmed.elze.in/blog my views on Australia, Egypt, Linux and other stuff Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:40:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 SGI IS4600 unboxing http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2011/04/19/sgi-is4600-unboxing/ http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2011/04/19/sgi-is4600-unboxing/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:40:40 +0000 Ahmed http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/?p=221 We recently purchased an additional IS-4600 disk array from SGI filled to the brim with 2TB SATA disks. Once we build all th LUNs (8+2 raid 6) we will end up with an additional (usable) 680 TB of disk.
This beast can handle an aggregate 6.4GB/s of I/O and can sustain 175K read (45K write) IOP/s from (to) the backend disk (not that we could ever get to that number with SATA).

I took some pictures during the unpacking that I thought I would share…
480 disks in 48 boxes disks... lots of disks.... 12 disk per draw, 5 draws per tray it takes a looong time to fill in all 480 disks almost there unpacking the disk takes the most time what a waste... drowning in disks the final draw all finished

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I hope I can get some pics of the installation phase posted here soon.

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