-- Exhibit -- We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps network. They currently have 6 Illumina Hi-Seq Sequencers and an HPC cluster to process data. They would like to expand Isilon to 2PB of active data and 1PB of archive data. They use a third party data and metadata management service (IRODs) to stage data for analysis. The Isilon cluster is mainly used for analysis work with the HPC cluster. The customer has a limited budget. What would be the best price/performance solution for their active data?

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The X-Series nodes offer the best price/performance ratio for active data, as they provide high performance at a relatively low cost. The SSD drives in option B would provide a performance boost, but they are not necessary for the customer's current needs and would increase the cost. The NL-Series nodes in option C are designed for nearline storage and are not as well-suited for active data. Option D would provide less capacity than the customer requires.

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