[Beowulf] Storage - the end of RAID?

[Greg Lindahl]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Hearns, John wrote:

> Quite a perceptive article on ZDnet
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/the-end-of-raid/1154?tag=nl.e539

This has been going on for a long time.  Blekko has 5 petabytes of
disk, and no RAID anywhere. RAID went out with SQL. Kinda funny that
HPC is slower to abandon RAID than other kinds of computing...

-- greg