[nycbug-talk] 135 TB storage for under 10k

Jesse Callaway bonsaime at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 10:12:05 EDT 2011


No, but they weren't too tight lipped. They mentioned that phys disk health
was measured entirely throuh SMART.
On Jul 25, 2011 1:37 AM, "Eitan Adler" <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is cool:
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> Yes, but...
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>>>
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/
>>>
>>> and they give parts lists to build your own.
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> But not the software. Managing 135TB of storage space (and monitoring
> it) is a non-trivial problem.
>
>> Going down to 2tb drives/90 , which are dirt cheap, it comes to just over
$5k.
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