Take the tour ×  I have a custom app that is multi-threaded;
each thread runs on its own logical core (the workstation is a
dual xeon, with 12 physical and 24 logical cores). So there are
24 threads running simultaneously.  I've been researching the
multitude of storage options over the last 2 days, and my head
is spinning at about 15k rpm.  The app has 2 modes, and they are
exclusive: read data or write data; by this I mean that they
won't be doing reads/writes interleaved. Each thread will just
be doing long sequential reads or writes. The total storage I
will need is huge: over 50 tbs (if you are reading this in the
year 2016 you are probably having a good chuckle right now over
the word "huge".)  Each thread will be reading or writing a file
that is about .8tb  I am going to go with jbod, because if a
drive fails, all I need to do is swap it, and the app will re-
create the data in about 10 minutes.  I will be putting the
drives into an external tower or rack, using a SATA OR SAS
controller (haven't figure