Well folks, this past weekend I was given a few "new" toys to play around, so I post them here and explain a bit about them.
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This is an L180 Tape Library from Sun, it take 180 tapes and 10 drives (I have only 4 LTO1 drives). Drives may be upgraded to LTO4.
LTO1 tapes take 100Gb uncompressed, LTO2 take 200GB and so on
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This is the main robotic rotor, the hand is also there on the top with it's digital camera to read the barcodes on the tapes.
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This is a Dell 2500 with 6x38Gb Ultra160 HD's, configured on RAID5 to give around 170Gb internal storage, 3psu's and 2xP3 933Mhz with 2Gb mem
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These are two Cisco Catalyst 3550 48*100Mbit + 2 Gbit (there with Ethernet GBIC's for copper gigabit) Cool bastards this ones
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This is the backside of the Dell 2500, the orange cables are the fibers connecting the L180, one for robotics (yeah, 2gbit to control robotics) and the other for the tape drive, I don't have a SAN swith (yet, but incoming a silkworm with 10 ports) so I would connect the 4 tapes, robotics and those 2 HBA (the PCI adapters for SCSI Fiber)
On top of the cisco is my vaio laptop.. the one I work 10 hours a day for the last 3 years... great machine.
Thats all the fun I can get