On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 04:29:40PM -0700, Andrew Hume spake thusly:
> 7) power supplies.... doug's point is well taken. one thing i would 
> investigate
> hard before building more is fabricating the wiring harnass so as to connect 
> to the modular
> power supplies common today (such as my fave, OCZ fata1ity). then all the 
> power
> could come from one beefy supply, and improve the airflow a fair bit. 

By "modular power supplies common today" mean you models/brands and not some
new sort of modular power supply technology or form factor, right?

OCZ fata1ity? You would really put red LED bling in a server? 

> i have found power supplies quite reliable, and therefore don't worry too
> much about them failing.  

I have found power supplies rather failure prone, second only to hard drives.
Especially if you are going to be running them at more than 80% of their rated
capacity.

> in fact, given our application sits on top of the Ningaui cluster framework,
> i would handle possible power supply failures by replicating files across a
> pair of backblazes, instead of within each backblaze.

Googling for Ningaui cluster framework does not bring up much other than a
small blurb written for USENIX in 2002. Is this not a publically available
project?

-- 
Tracy Reed
http://tracyreed.org

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