Petabytes on a budget

slylittlefox · 3 Sep 2009 at 09:58

Thought some of you would find this of interest:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

I want

Coldzero · 3 Sep 2009 at 10:28

heh intresting, thanks for the share.

PhillyDee · 3 Sep 2009 at 10:46

Wow.

Server p0rn!

Confused · 3 Sep 2009 at 11:22

That's quite an interesting read

Sootie · 3 Sep 2009 at 11:43

Shame they don't ship and build for that price

daz · 3 Sep 2009 at 11:45

I saw this yesterday... i would not fancy racking or de-racking one of those machines.

upthetoon · 3 Sep 2009 at 11:59

This would go nicely with the 50mb broadband.

#Chri5# · 3 Sep 2009 at 13:15

Very interesting. Surprised an E8600 CPU doesn't run out of horsepower doing RAID6 for that many HDs.

slylittlefox · 3 Sep 2009 at 13:23

daz said:
I saw this yesterday... i would not fancy racking or de-racking one of those machines.

Weight wise you mean? I thought that too - must be nearing 60kg's easy :eek:

Ringiho · 3 Sep 2009 at 16:11

Saw this yesterday!

Was rather impressed until I saw the 1x IDE HDD for a boot drive. Surely spending a little bit more money to make it RAID1 would have been worth it!

john_s · 3 Sep 2009 at 19:15

I'd have thought it'll barely use the OS drive; it'll only reboot once every not very often.

Ringiho · 3 Sep 2009 at 19:46

Its still spinning though!

K.C. Leblanc · 3 Sep 2009 at 20:13

Ringiho said:
Saw this yesterday!

Was rather impressed until I saw the 1x IDE HDD for a boot drive. Surely spending a little bit more money to make it RAID1 would have been worth it!

I'm supprised they didn't got the other way and boot off a USB stick or SD card like ESXi does.

steveo · 3 Sep 2009 at 20:59

jesus mary thats a lot of porn :eek:

Ringiho · 3 Sep 2009 at 21:06

K.C. Leblanc said:
I'm supprised they didn't got the other way and boot off a USB stick or SD card like ESXi does.

That could work more safely!

knowlesy · 7 Sep 2009 at 00:20

read that before seriously contemplating suggesting it to my company !

daz · 7 Sep 2009 at 10:20

Response from a Sun engineer
http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/58...-storage-server-mentioned-at-Storagemojo.html

growse · 7 Sep 2009 at 10:21

Not hotswap = fail. Wouldn't like to be the guy finding the single failed disk at 3am with no failure / activity lights and the need to derack the whole thing to pull a single disk.

Looks good though, and certainly inspiring for my own little NAS project

AbsenceJam · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:06

The main problem I see is performance, all those disks using RAID6 to a couple of controller cards with slow interfaces. I would have spent more on motherboard and SATA cards then used RAID-Z and spent less on disk through gaining more space and far more performance.

Lanz · 7 Sep 2009 at 11:08

That thing is like a teenagers A Level project. So slow, cheap and nasty compared to the real storage solutions. It would be a nightmare to manage.