Earlier this year, NASA teamed up with Fibre Channel specialist Winchester Systems to store Earth images for the administrations Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) in Langley, Va. NASA deployed three of Winchesters SA-4500 systems, which are connected to the administrations Linux servers via Fibre Channel.
Although each of the systems offers up to 12 Tbytes of storage capacity, only 10 Tbytes will actually be used, leaving the remaining 2 Tbytes for RAID 6 protection.
NASAs imaging projects also involve other vendors, such as Isilon, which provides the storage for the administrations World Wind project, an open source, virtual globe that lets online users explore the Earth and its terrain through high-resolution 3D satellite images.
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