[152105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Storage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T. Yocum)
Thu Apr 12 17:38:14 2012
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:37:38 -0700
From: "John T. Yocum" <john.yocum@fluidhosting.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <63739.1334266462@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/12/2012 2:34 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:18:30 -0700, "John T. Yocum" said:
>> In that case, just keep adding disks to you capture system, or use a NAS
>> to do it.
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:43:49 -0700, Joel jaeggli said:
>> 1TB is 2.276 hours at 1Gb/s
>
> If he's got a gigabit of traffic, he's going to be adding another shelf of 12 1T
> drives to that NAS - every day. If he gets the high-density shelves with 60 drives,
> he's only adding one a week.
>
> He's going to have to work smarter, not harder.
He did indicate he's only storing the headers and a few bytes, not the
full payload.
--John
