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WhipTail promises 6TB SSD

Robert Hallock July 10, 2009 11:23 AM ET in Tech

Enterprise SSD maker WhipTail has recently announced the introduction of a 6TB SSD which sounds fabulous until you hear that it’s all jammed into a 2U enclosure. Talk about buzzkill.

SUMMIT, N.J. – July 8, 2009 – Today, WhipTail Technologies Inc., a provider of solidstate drive (SSD) tier 0 storage appliances, announced availability of its 6TB WhipTailTMSSD appliance. Still manufactured as a 2 rack unit (2U), this makes WhipTail the highest-capacity SSD tier 0 appliance available to mid- to large-sized enterprises, with the smallest footprint.

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7 Comments:

  1. MAGIC
    NFNF
    10 Jul '09, 11:30 am

    ...and will cost 60 grand.

  2. Lincoln
    Snapperhead
    10 Jul '09, 11:48 am

    Could work as a hassock?

  3. ardichoke
    King Banana Spanner
    11 Jul '09, 3:57 am

    Cool storage, bro. I'll stick to my standard spinny drives that actually fit in my case and don't diaf if you write to them too much kthx.

  4. Robert Hallock
    Cad
    11 Jul '09, 4:11 am

    Today's SSDs are statistically more reliable than your spinny little disks.

  5. ardichoke
    King Banana Spanner
    11 Jul '09, 4:30 am

    Not from what I've seen. I've had 1 hard disk fail on me ever and that was long after it had been retired from my primary desktop. SSDs? Well, I refuse to use them at home due to cost but they seem to fail disturbingly often at work. Especially this one, now ex, customer who insisted that their write-heavy database server be running on a RAID0 of SSDs. We basically had to restore their entire server every couple of months and they refused to listen to us when we told them that SSDs are not the way to go for write-heavy applications, they'd be better off with a RAID5 of SAS drives. From what I've seen, as long as you're working in a read-heavy environment SSDs are great. Once you start writing to them a lot (swap anyone?) their life decreases dramatically.

  6. Robert Hallock
    Cad
    11 Jul '09, 11:51 am

    That customer was fucking stupid.

    There are only a handful of drives qualified to perform transactional work in the enterprise, and I can guarantee he didn't have them.

    Again, I said there were only a few: Intel X25-E, Samsung SS805, Fusion-Io has several products, Sun Microsystems has several whitebox models suited to the tasks.

    All of these drives are qualified to run at more than 20GB of writes per day for 5 years. That's the absolute minimum.

  7. ardichoke
    King Banana Spanner
    12 Jul '09, 4:41 am

    Believe me, we know he was stupid. We also know he wasn't using any of those drives as they were our stock SSDs (not a colocated server, he rented it directly from us). We probably lost money on his account overall... no one that has had to work with them is missing them as a customer.

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