Wondering what a storage array is doing at 1, Times Square? It's busy pumping GBs of data for the world's largest LED billboard.
For a detailed spec of the hardware >>
Gizmodo Post on the insane hardware driving the world's largest LED billboard
The storage array that powers the billboard is Galaxy Aurora IB.The Galaxy® Aurora IB is a 4RU RAID Storage SAN Ready Subsystem. Here is why this array is cool - "Aurora is capable of 1700 MB/S even in the event of one or two failed drives. That meets 2K & 4K film production or HD video SAN requirements" (So that's RAID-6 ?)
Here is a pic of the signboard caught by me while it was tested
