To InfiniFlash and beyond: SanDisk wheels out Big Data box

SanDisk has announced its InfiniFlash all-flash array for Big Data, a 3U box holding up to 512TB of data, 10 times more than the ION Accelerator appliance, and capable of running the same software stack – or Ceph. Sandisk_Infiniflash_box_lid_off Video* grab showing InfiniFlash box with top lid removed There are three …

[brym]

YouTube Link

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[Anonymous Coward]

1 million dollars.....

There must be a use case for this, but wow is this expensive. Still seems cheaper to use HDFS for analytics across cheap disk and scale the number of boxes.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 1 million dollars.....

It is. Substantially so. HDFS isn't a cure-all though. Still need something for object storage or running a big ol' VM farm off.

[Anonymous Coward]

Flash JBOD

So it's just a really dense flash SAS shelf.... great density, but you can see from the connectors on the cards they are really just SAS SSDs without the case.

You still need x86 compute servers to drive the actual storage software (Ceph, ION, or whatever).

[thegreatsatan]

For certain customers this is mana from heaven

All those stupid cat pictures on your facebook profile that you have not accessed in a year, they go on a box like this because FB users are inpatient twits who can't wait the 10 seconds it takes to pull those archived images off of disk, or DVDROM media. There is a very deep market for all flash archive storage, its just not remotley relevant for 99% of companies out there today.

They will sell a lot of this, and you will never hear about it.

[Trevor_Pott]

Want.