A hospital is considering using Isilon to store their long-term archive data for their GE PACS application. They currently have two million 17 MB studies. They expect capacity requirements to be 50% compounded growth per year. They plan to use N+2:1 protection, and would like this sized for three years of growth. Which minimum cluster configuration would meet this customer's environment?

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The hospital needs to store 2 million studies at 17 MB each, which is 34 TB of initial data. With 50% compounded growth over three years, the data will grow to approximately 114 TB. Using N+2:1 protection, the usable capacity is reduced to about 67% of raw capacity. Five NL400 nodes with 1 TB drives provide sufficient raw capacity to meet these requirements.

A Hospital Is Considering Using Isilon to Store Their Long-Term