Background The physical capacity of storage arrays continues to grow at an enormous rate, year on year. Using EMC as a benchmark, we can see that a single array has grown over the years; Symmetrix 3430 – 96 drives, 0.84TB Symmetrix 5500 – 128 drives, 1.1TB Symmetrix 8830 – 384 drives, 69.5TB DMX3000 – 576 [...]