What's DriveScale up to? Mix-'n'-match server and disk storage, for starters

DriveScale is a startup that emerged from a three-year stealth effort earlier this year with hardware and software to dynamically present externally connected JBODS to servers as if they were local. The idea is to provide composable server-storage combos for changing Hadoop-type distributed workloads. It is meant to share the …

[jms222]

200 microseconds ? That's an awful lot compared to ethernet links, SAS links and SSD random access times. If everything including disks were on ethernet (and I don't necessarily mean in the way Seagate's object storage disks work).

[genebanman]

DriveScale Adapter Latency Not an Issue

Remember we are talking about disk drives not SSDs, in an Hadoop environment with very large block sizes. A 200 microsecond latency added to 1+ millisecond disk drive seek time latency every 1 MB or 64 MB block will not affect application performance as long as the full streaming throughput of the drive is supported, which it is.