tape drives (IBM SSA, IBM England -> Xyratex)

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:53 PM, der Mouse wrote:
>> Umm, what?  Unless you're in the twilight zone, FC is everywhere.
>> I've not seen a datacenter *without* tons of FC for many years,
>
> I work for an ISP.  Our machine room is not huge, but not tiny either
> (it's pulling some 20 kW), and we've got little enough FC that I've
> never noticed any.  (We have almost no fiber at all; what little we
> have, as far as I can recall, is limited to pipes to/from the outside
> world.)
>
> We don't go in for the "big honkin' server with lots of little pod
> machines" design in general, which might be relevant.  Also possibly
> relevant is that a large fraction - probably well over half - of our
> machine room is customer co-lo gear, mostly with only a few machines
> per customer.

   I used to (and sorta still do) work for an ISP as well...a smaller  
one than yours from the sound of things, but I've worked for several  
over the years, large and small.  It's not very common in that  
environment because it's just not needed in that environment.  I  
suppose I should've qualified "datacenter" to mean "non-ISP  
datacenter" in my earlier message. ;)

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL