Re: SSD-RAID for new wide-field microscopy system

Posted by Christopher Yip on
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enterprise SSD 7.4 TB — can be had for a lot less than $6K ….

I got a quote for a 100 TB raw 24 bay SSD array for < $30K US…


Chris


On May 23, 2019, at 10:18 AM, Julio MATEOS_LANGERAK <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

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Hi,

Multidimensional time lapses can grow very fast in size and I think it’s something worth considering. I would do some math with the expected experiments. That said, I think the delta in price for 2Tb is abusive.

If you are not sure about the data production I would delay the investment and see if it is something you may do your self for a few hundreds.

Meanwhile, consider the infrastructure downstream. How fast you can get the data out of the machine? How are you going to store and process that data? ...

Best, Julio

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On 23 May 2019, at 15:49, Mirco Martino <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

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Hi all,

we are buying a new fluorescent microscope wide-field system. The system include a workstation with 64GB DDR4 RAM, 11GB of graphic card, 512 gb of memory and SSD-RAID of 2TB. There is an option to increase the SSD-RAID to 4TB for  about 6000$ extra. The system will be use for both fixed materiel imaging and for live-imaging with time-laps, z-stack, tiling and multi-fluorophores experiments. I was wondering if it is worth to invest those extra money for this option or not. This will be the first time we will have time-laps experiments, so I don't know what to expect as pictures size.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance for your comments and opinions!