Re: How to store 50 Terabytes per day?

So, two informative replies. Pretty high signal to noise ratio.

Thanks Tim and Ian.

Jared

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:08:12 -0700, jared.still_at_radisys.com <jared.still_at_radisys.com> wrote:
> This quote appears in the following article:
> http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,95694,00.html?nas=DM-95694
> " When it's in operation in 2011 at a site still to be determined, the
> telescope being built for the LSST project will collect data at a rate of
> about 6GB (equivalent to one DVD) per 10 seconds, generating many
> petabytes of data over time. One petabyte equals roughly 100 times the
> printed contents of the Library of Congress. The LSST project "pushes
> forward database technology dramatically," says Philip Pinto, a physics
> professor at Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona and a member
> of the LSST project's board of directors. "The LSST database will probably
> be the largest known nonproprietary database in the world."
> So if you were faced with the task of storing 50 Terabytes per day, what
> kind of architecture would it require?
> Do you think Oracle would hold up with a transaction rate of 600 Megabytes
> per second?
> The architecture of such a beast could drive out some interesting
> developments for more general use.
> Jared

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