Tiny toast or giant hand? It's not an optical illusion. When IBM offered 2 TB drives on the XIV, I thought I was seeing an illusion: the overall power consumption had dropped (not risen). Guess what? With XIV Gen3, power consumption drops yet again. Using worst case power consumption numbers I can see the following maximums: 180 drive XIV Generation 2 with 1 TB drives(79TB usable): 8.4...
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