8 Terabytes & Counting (PIC)

I have an Ipod bigger than that

I took your advice and bought one of them. It was dead right out of the box.

Luckily LaCie Canada is right around the corner and they fixed me up in 15 minutes.

errrr....i hate my name.

huge ass things lol. Well I guess she atleast stays busy

When I bought my 2nd PC at CompUSA,,,it was a 486 dx33

The salesman talked me into upgrading the 5 meg hard drive to a 10 meg hard drive for $150

He told me that would be more storage than I would ever need.

You need one of these man: http://63.135.127.48/Snap_Server/Products/18000.shtml

Man, you just have all sorts of toys don't you?

I need to look into getting me some of those, drive space is as good as gold.

Goddamn thats a LOT of video.

Thats a badass picture.

OUCH $5 per GB

That is like $40k compared to my $10k outlay for the 8 TB drives. I think I will stick with Lacie for now. ;)

I bet it's awesome though. Network attached storage is very cool.

I get scared thinking about what would happen if they failed.

I just bought a P400T yellow Machine for the raid.

That price per GB is def a pain in the ass.

For you guys you should build a SAN your self with Raid for backup.

Maybe your video editor should learn project management


8 TB is alot of video... and I mean, ALOOOOOOOOOT

Funny story.

I had a friend that worked for Sputnik7 back in the day and they had 1TB of storage. It took up a whole closet and was over $100,000 or more if I rememebr correctly. That is only going back like 5 years or so.

It is crazy to think that you can fit 8TB on your desk.

Believe me she needs it all. Project management like that would slow her down.

Between the raw captured vids and the various compressed formats she deals with 8 TB is not even enough.

wrong place sorry

How much do you pay per drive?

Damn.. but you can never have too much space

Lol need help with all that video editing?

You can never have enough back up files. If you are a decent editor you will be filling up hard drives at a rate of knots.

They are about $800 CDN now. My first one cost me $1400 2 years ago.

once you get into High def video you'll need a couple just for scratch disks.

Proper Time codes+Project files on CDs or DVDs= saves you THOUSANDS on HD space

I have 3 of those and a Lacie Firewire 800 adapter. I've had 3 RMAs and had to replace the adapter on my own. Yup, 4 total products from Lacie and 4 total failures. You're living dangerously.

Might want to consider a RAID setup with a bunch of SATA drives before you loose days worth of work.

I have had a few small issues with my Lacie drives but overall the failure rate is low in my experience. I have been using their stuff for years with great reliability.

I guess everyones experience with them is different.

All project files are backed up daily, just captured and compressed video taking up all the space

Damn i only got 1tb

This is a serious shit u know!
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Snap Server 18000
High-Performance Block and File Storage for Enterprise Data Management



Product Description

High-performance block and file storage for enterprise data management

The award-winning Snap Server? 18000 is the fastest Snap Server ever. Ideal for primary or secondary storage, it provides critical high-availability features including redundant hot-swappable components and battery-backed Nonvolatile Memory (NVRAM). iSCSI support allows block applications and data to be deployed or stored on the same server as traditional file services and storage. With its high-powered performance, dynamic on-the-fly scalability up to 45.2TB and a price tag less than $5.00/GB, the GuardianOS-based Snap Server 18000 redefines cost-effective enterprise storage.

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* Instantaneous cross-platform file sharing
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Technical Specifications

Customer Needs

High performance, high availability storage solution. Exceptional scalability at a very low cost-per-gigabyte.

Benefits

Cost-effective capacity, performance, and availability that simplifies the management of data throughout an enterprise or department.

Key Differentiators

Unmatched price/performance, best-in-class scalability, unified block and file storage, advanced data availability.

Maximum Capacity

Add up to 7 SANbloc S50 JBODs to a maximum of 44TB

Cross-Platform Support

GuardianOS, Windows, Linux, UNIX

Network Interface

Dual-Gigabit Ethernet ports (autosensing 10/100/1000)

Expansion Interface

Optional single-port Fibre Channel SAS HBA (auto-negotiating 1Gb/2Gb per second)

Local Tape Backup Interface

Dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI 68-pin VHDCI

Hot Swappable and Redundant Components

Hot-swappable SATA disk drives; hot-swappable and redundant power; redundant cooling

Processor

Dual 3.0GHz Intel Xeon processors with symmetric multi-processing (SMP)

Cache

Standard configuration: 512KB L2 cache

System Bus

533 MHz front-side system bus

Non-Volatile Memory

512MB battery-backed NVRAM

ECC Memory

2GB PC2100 DDR SDRAM running at 266MHz

Drive Configuration

8 x 250GB hot-swappable SATA drive (2TB raw capacity)

Available PCI-X Expansion Slots

1 full-height 64-bit/133MHz; 3 half-height 64-bit/133MHz

System MTBF

Calculated from Bellcore Reliability Prediction Procedure TR-322 issue 6
System MTBF (raw): 18,675 hrs
System MTBF (redundant): 107,312 hrs

Network Transport Protocols

TCP/IP, UDP/IP, Appletalk

Network File Protocols

Microsoft Networks (CIFS/SMB), UNIX (NFS v2/3), Apple (AFP 2.0), Internet (HTTP 1.1), File Transport Protocol (FTP)

Network Block Protocols

iSCSI target support
Snap Servers running GuardianOS v3 SP1 or higher
iSCSI software initiator support
Windows: Microsoft iSCSI Initiator v1.03, v1.04
Solaris: Cisco SN 5400 Series iSCSI Driver v3.3.5
Linux: UNH-iSCSI Initiator v1.5.3
iSCSI hardware initiator support
Adaptec 7211C (copper) HBA
Intel PRO/1000T IP Storage Adapter v2.0, 2.1
Alacritech SES1001 iSCSI HBA Adapter

Network Security

CA eTrust Antivirus software
Microsoft Active Directory Service (ADS Member Server)
Kerberos Authentication v5
CHAP Authentication (iSCSI target level)
Microsoft Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP v3 client)
Windows NT Domain (member server)
UNIX Network Information Service (NIS) Support
File and Folder Access Control List (ACL) Security for Users and Groups
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) v2/3 128-bit encryption
Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1


Data Protection

RAID 1, 0, 5
Integrated snapshot technology
Optional Snap EDR enterprise-class replication software
Optional S2S v2 entry-level replication software
Local backup: Integrated BakBone NetVault Workgroup Edition
Network backup: Supports VERITAS NetBackup/Backup Exec, CA BrightStor ARCserve/Enterprise, Legato NetWorker, BakBone NetVault, Microsoft Backup Software for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, and NDMP v2, v3, v4. Compatible with Dantz Retrospect for Macintosh.
UPS Support: APC brand UPS with Network Management cards are supported for graceful shutdown

Power Rating

100-240 VAC (autosensing)

Input Current

3.2A (RMS) for 115VAC, 1.6A (RMS) for 230VAC

Input Frequency

43-63Hz

Power Consumption

370W (steady state) 500W (maximum)

Heat Dissipation

1262 BTUs/hr

IT Power Systems

Also designed for IT power systems with phase-to-phase voltage 230V

Height

3.5 inches (88.9mm)

Width

17.3 inches (439.4mm)

Depth

26.5 inches (673mm)

Weight

70 lbs (32.75 kg)

Warranty

Three-year limited hardware warranty, with first-year next-business-day on-site parts and labor, upon completed registration. Onsite warranty subject to regional availability; check with your local Adaptec sales team.

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Applications
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Datasheet
Snap Server Manager

Centralized Storage Management Software
Easily deploy, configure, and manage a complete Snap Server network from a single console. It minimizes required IT resources and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) especially when deploying multiple Snap Servers.
Datasheet
BakBone NetVault

Simple, Powerful, Scalable Backup Software
GuardianOS integrates BakBone NetVault Workgroup Edition for backup and recovery. We?ve added a free upgrade to a 500GB Virtual Tape Library license to simplify disk-to-disk backup solutions.
Technical Brief

CA eTrust Antivirus

GuardianOS also integrates CA eTrust Antivirus software for complete, easily managed virus protection on your storage network.

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Server-to-Server (S2S) Synchronization

Expansion
SANbloc S50 1TB (4 x 250GB SATA drives) 2220900
SANbloc S50 2TB (4 x 500GB SATA drives) 2221000
SANbloc S50 3TB (12 x 250GB SATA drives) 2225000
SANbloc S50 6TB (12 x 500GB SATA drives) 2225100
SANbloc S50 1.2TB (4 x 300GB SAS drives) 2221100
SANbloc S50 3.6TB (12 x 300GB SAS drives) 2225200

I dont think that I will ever need that kind of storage. That is a lot.

Is that for your P2P program?

Yeah that is overkill unless your doing feature films,edit, burn and file it. Hard drives fail.