Be warned... 24tb is the new 500gb

[WinstonTJ]

I'm selling a 10TB dual Xeon box for roughly $2k. Thats pretty damm good IMO for 10TB and a backtest engine running on ssd.

 

[Bolimomo]

Quote from AK100:

Anyone remember their first computer's hard drive capacity?

What is a "hard drive"?

Mine was an Apple II+, with 48K RAM. That is "K" as in Kay, not Mag. And a 5 1/4-inch floppy drive (wow!). You boot from ROM, and load your app from floppies.

10MB hard disk: full height 5 1/4-inch, (from IBM a few years later) was a huge wow for us.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&...w=208&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:78

 

[Equalizer]

Quote from danielc1:

I use a tandy 1000 with a tapedeck to upload my charts... It takes about 5 minutes for one eod chart to get on my screen...

Pffft, this is every HFT's dream machine

 

[PocketChange]

You really should upgrade to IBM's latest technology:

 

[Bolimomo]

A state-of-the-art 456MB disk drive - Digital's RA81:

 

[nitro]

Quote from ultramarathon:

Sounds reasonable to me.

I work for a university and we are now generating 500+ gigs of system logs a day (600 servers, a few hundred switches, firewalls, apps, etc, etc).

It wouldn't surprise me if over half of that growth is just in the last 10 years or so. 20 years of EOD data is smaller then 1 year of 60 second ticks.

Stephen

I am curious,

Do you boot all your machines from the network share instead of from the local disk? What software do you use to monitor all the machines health, Nagios, etc?

 

[mgookin]

Quote from ultramarathon:

Sounds reasonable to me.

I work for a university and we are now generating 500+ gigs of system logs a day (600 servers, a few hundred switches, firewalls, apps, etc, etc).

It wouldn't surprise me if over half of that growth is just in the last 10 years or so. 20 years of EOD data is smaller then 1 year of 60 second ticks.

Stephen

That sounds like a lot more than system logs. 500Gb/ day?

My guess is you are a unit of government and you are mining every keystroke, attachment, etc. complete with stalking infrastructure to search for certain words and phrases.

How close am I?