Intermediate Step: Shared Logic

• Brick with 8-12 disk drives

• 200 mips/arm (or more)

• 2xGbpsEthernet

• General purpose OS

• 10k$/TB to 50k$/TB

• Shared

  • Sheet metal
  • Power
  • Support/Config
  • Security
  • Network ports

• These bricks could run applications (e.g. SQL or Mail or..)

Snap

~1TB 12x80GB NAS

NetApp

~.5TB

8x70GB NAS

Maxstor

~2TB 12x160GB NAS

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