More Power To Us Part 4: The Titanic

August 22nd, 2006 at 5:35 pm by zack

500gb seagate drivesTo all the h8ters out there that didn’t show any love to our 2 terabytes of Maxtor goodness, this should make you happy. Introducing Titanic (aka The Juggernaut 2). This time, we needed space in-house (as opposed to the collocation facility), so we pulled out the tried and true juggernaut recipe to make another batch of 1.5tb raid 5 goodness. As the requirements for expandability weren’t as high, we didn’t go for the full 15 drive chassis, instead, opting for a 6 hot swap bay rack-mount case along with only a 4 port Fasttrack 4310 controller. This will allow us to merge all of our High-Def Test files into one nice server, which, at 8gb/hour, have been eating up our normal drive space.

3 Responses to “More Power To Us Part 4: The Titanic”

  1. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com Mr cynic's mom Says:

    Splendid! :)

    It would be interesting to see which of either the maxtor or seagate drives fail first to see if the preconceived ideas that seagates rock hold true.

  2. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com Marc Says:

    Uhhh… I hope you know that the Tinanic sank on its first voyage. Hopefully the name choice isn’t as cursed.

  3. Get a Gravatar at gravatar.com zack Says:

    You see, a quick googling found that an article by “The Shipbuilder” magazine called the Titanic “practically unsinkable.” After seeing this, I stopped my research into names, reasoning that nothing could have changed in the century since that article was written.