Somewhat related to the email message below: I am going to play with a
StoragePod 2.0 for the next project in 2013... The machine uses
off-the-shelf components like motherboard, CPU, 45 disks, memory,
power supply... and the real intellectual property that was released
by Backblaze is the 4U
My own random thoughts about the storage pod and random ideas.
(1) The backblaze pod we built (Rayson has my bioteam.net URL in his
post below) cost roughly $12K for 100 terabytes of usable storage. Even
with all the downsides and negatives to this particular hardware rig the
$12,000 for 100
