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Title: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Trippy on April 21, 2006, 04:24:04 PM HP puts the StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array to the test (http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/49205-0-0-225-121.aspx?bodycontentparams=320065-0-0-0-121&ERL=true)
Video download is painful slow from the above page, use a digg.com mirror link from the comments section (http://digg.com/technology/Can_Your_Server_Survive_a_Ballistics_Test_HP_decided_to_test_theirs). This link worked fine for me: http://64mhz.com/mirror/5785060306.wmv Edit: oops I meant to post this in the Useless Video thread, oh well... Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Samwise on April 21, 2006, 04:30:10 PM One of my coworkers once went out to a customer site to investigate some server performance issues they'd been having, which we suspected was due to bad disk performance. One of the things they were excessively proud of was the giant RAID gizmo that they hosted all their stuff on. "See," their sysadmin said, "I even can pull the plug on this box here, and the rest of them pick up the load with no interruption to service at all!"
To demonstrate, he pulled the plug out of the wall, and their servers promptly ground to a halt. :-D Guess he wasn't using one of these bulletproof HP gizmos. Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Strazos on April 21, 2006, 08:52:45 PM I would just like to know what was Actually hit in the video. It looks like it went through blank PCB board, passing by all the solder connections and chips.
Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Trippy on April 21, 2006, 08:56:51 PM Read this PDF:
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA0-4863ENW.pdf Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Engels on April 22, 2006, 06:00:21 PM Read this PDF: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA0-4863ENW.pdf Well, they explained it; its a raid 10 array. big woop. Its not an HP thing, its a raid configuration thing. Yes, you can ostensibly stuff so many hard drives into a box that you can kill half of them with the other half taking over. The technology has been out for at least 2 years. Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Samwise on April 22, 2006, 07:44:55 PM Longer 'n that. RAIDs were old news when I was a freshman in college, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Trippy on April 22, 2006, 07:52:34 PM Jeez you guys -- shoot a bullet through your RAID controller card/chip and see if the RAID keeps working...
Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Fabricated on April 23, 2006, 12:52:27 PM I know my workplace's IT department has daily shootouts, so this is a handy bit of technology.
Title: Re: Can an HP XP12000 Disk Array keep running after a bullet is shot through it? Post by: Roac on April 24, 2006, 07:26:47 AM I know my workplace's IT department has daily shootouts, so this is a handy bit of technology. Might be handy for me - but I work in law enforcement where a number of my coworkers are armed. |