I have worked in HPC (academia) where the cluster storage size is measured in multiples of PB since a decade. Since latency and bandwidth is a killer requirement there, Infiniband (instead of Ethernet) is the defacto standard for connecting the storage pools to the computing nodes.
Maintaining such a (storage) cluster requires 1-2 people on site which replace a few hard disks every day.
Nevertheless, when I would continously need massive amount of data, I would opt in doing it myself anytime instead of cloud services. I just know how well these clusters run and there is little to no saving when outsourcing it.
Maintaining such a (storage) cluster requires 1-2 people on site which replace a few hard disks every day.
Nevertheless, when I would continously need massive amount of data, I would opt in doing it myself anytime instead of cloud services. I just know how well these clusters run and there is little to no saving when outsourcing it.