On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > This is my response to a request on a different mailing list. Thought > a few might like to read some of the information in case they are in > the need for a lot of 'personal storage'. >
That's cheap. 73k + the cost of the full rack for 1.3 petabytes. each rack could hold 10 of these. > > --- > DIY big data server... > > > http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ > > > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ > -- older version of same article > > Actually a pretty good article. > > Supposedly 135T for under $8K in a single 4U case. If you buy a > single case from their > case maker they charge a bit more than backblaze allows in their > budget. And backblaze > even does 'black friday' sales. they had customers buy a specific > external disk drive that > has the 3T drives they like, and ship them in. they paid a bounty for > the drives. I guess > still must be less than they can buy it for from the manufacturer. > > The case and software design is all open source, and runs Linux. They > don't give away > their 'magic sauce' for clients, but if you want it for a NAS > server,it is a proven design > and you can run whatever software you want on it. > > I guess you could even use their software on one of these units and > backup one to their > service for $5/mo since there is no limit to the data they allow you to > use. > > Their clients are Win and Mac only I think. That is why I use > Crashplan that also has a > Linux client on my machines. > > an interview talking about linux client development with a backblaze > bigwig: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786390 > > a blog about backblaze philosophy for client development: > > http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-write-cross-platform-code/ > > Their software seems to be Debian with Tomcat running on ext4 file > systems in LVM and uses RAID6. Their 'special sauce' seems to be in > their application logic running in Tomcat over HTTPS and in their > client software. But this is all my extrapolation. > > They did note that this is a good environment for their write-mostly > application use. If you are serving video's or lots of read mostly > needs, some other decisions might be better. > > For a home/small business system for backup, datadump, whatever, it > doesn't sound like a bad idea. Still be ready to buy another drive > every few months as insurance WHEN drives fail. ... And if you have > the right client, back it all up to a 'cheap backup service' :) if you > can afford the bandwidth! :) > > ><> ... Jack > Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. -- Martin Terma > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
