Sounds about right. A few years ago I paid $779 for a 12-disk enclosure from newegg, plus another $120 for a 1U server from ebay to run the thing.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote: > Kurt Keville wrote: >> I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like >> http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is >> getting... > > Thanks for the link. It says they were inspired by the Backblaze > project. For those not familiar, Backblaze is in the business of > providing online storage, and they published the plans for the low-cost > petabyte storage servers they used internally: > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ > > This is great to see, and I've looked into some of the components they > use, like the SATA port multiplier backplanes, but Backblaze and > OpenStoragePod are interested in solving the problem for petabyte-scale > storage, which is an order of magnitude (or two or three) beyond what > I'm interested in at the moment. > > I had hoped to see multiple vendors start offering the SATA backplanes, > but years later the item is still hard to find. > > Compared to the enterprise alternatives, a Backblaze is a bargain, but > much of it doesn't scale down cost effectively to 6 ~ 12 drives. They > paid $748 for their steel enclosure alone. A smaller one would obviously > cost less, but any custom enclosure is going to run $200+. > > What's on the market for small-scale NASs is already cheap by enterprise > standards. But there is still a noticeable "server tax" on these small > system. At least some of it is justifiable due to lower volumes. So it > is a harder problem to solve. > > -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER [email protected] / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
