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Story: IBM shows off XIV grid-computing tech

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XIV and DS5000 are not the same

The video concerns IBM's XIV storage product. IBM also markets a product called DS5000, an enhancement to the previous DS4700 and DS4800 products.
Their design is very different and should not be confused.

XIV is grid based using 1TB SATA drives and an innovative way of distributing 1MB chunks of data across all 180 1TB disks in the solution.
80TB is the usable capacity.

DS5000 is a traditional, but very capable, SAN device that provides different Raid levels and intermixing of FC and SATA drives. Different disk capacities are also supported. It starts off well below the 80TB of XIV.

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