Fujitsu Announces World's Largest Capacity Storage Arrays, 1.3 Petabytes

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2760 drives, 500GB each, one huge storage array

Storage has become monumental these days, especially with various companies broadcasting companies going online and making TV shows and movies available for IP viewing. Such trends in the industry push storage companies to create and invent new ideas and products that not only drive prices down, but give consumers plentiful choices in storage technologies.

Fujitsu recently launched what it claims to be the world's largest storage array, the ETERNUS 8000 and ETERNUS 4000 storage arrays. Weighing in at 1.36 petabytes, or 1.36 million gigabytes, the ETERNUS file storage arrays push the envelope for enterprise data storage systems. Fujitsu uses 2,760 nearline fibre-channel 500GB disk drives in its flagship ETERNUS server (model 2100) and can be configured with up to 256GB of cache.

* World's largest storage capacity (over 1 petabyte)
* World's highest storage performance from up to sixteen 3.6GHz dual processors per system
* RAID6 (double parity) support. Enhanced reliability even if simultaneous HDD failures occur
* Disk to Disk backup using Nearline FC disk drives
* Multi-functional backup options with OPC, QuickOPC & SnapOPC
* Cost-effective disaster recovery solutions using iSCSI
* Data encryption for online and offline information security

Fujitsu packs in preventative maintenance features such as tape backup, data encryption, and data automation features into the ETERNUS arrays just in case disaster should strike. Performance wise, Fujitsu says that its servers can be equipped with up to 32 dual-core processors, giving the arrays unmatched throughput. Fujitsu hopes to ship 14,000 units over the next two years.

While Fujitsu claims the largest array available, EMC Corporation launched the first petabyte server that was commercially available back in January of this year.