On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:07 PM, John Doe <jd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Franc Carter <franc.car...@sirca.org.au> > > > One of the projects I am working on is going to need to store about > 200TB of data - generally in manageable binary chunks. However, after doing > some rough calculations based on rules of thumb I have seen for how much > storage should be on each node I'm worried. > > 200TB with RF=3 is 600TB = 600,000GB > > Which is 1000 nodes at 600GB per node > > I'm hoping I've missed something as 1000 nodes is not viable for us. > > Why only 600GB per node? >
I had seen comments that you didn't want to put 'too much' data on to a single node and had seen the figure of 400GB thrown around as an approximate figure - I rounded up to 600GB to make the maths easy ;-) I'm hoping that my understanding is flawed ;-) cheers > > JD > > -- *Franc Carter* | Systems architect | Sirca Ltd <marc.zianideferra...@sirca.org.au> franc.car...@sirca.org.au | www.sirca.org.au Tel: +61 2 9236 9118 Level 9, 80 Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box H58, Australia Square, Sydney NSW 1215
