On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 01:05:55PM -0500, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Peter Jalajas <[email protected]> wrote: > > You might consider going to one big honking file server (on the > cheap). BackBlaze has open sourced > their hardware designs for massive systems into which you can install > your own drives. They just announced a third iteration of the design > that holds 45 drives. Their claim is that they build such a system > for about $2000 (in quantity with no drives). Your price would > probably be higher, but probably no more then 50% more. It sounds > like you could pull the SATA drives out of all your old equipment and > just plug them into a single filer server. Going forward you could > swap out low density with higher density drives as they become > available. Current max capacity (with 4 TB drives) is 180 Petabytes. > That's close to 50 million 4GByte video files. Here's their blog > entry about it: > > http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/02/20/180tb-of-good-vibrations-storage-pod-3-0/
Note that backblaze does all their redundancy on a cross-pod basis, not inside a pod. Their model is that any pod can fail without disturbing the overall system. As a result, they don't do hotswap or RAID, and they don't care much about performance. If that is not Peter's model, it's not going to work for him. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
