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> Worth pointing out (for those of you not in the storage game) that these appliances, while cool, are pretty far from state of the art. So basically you decid
by BinaryIdiot 11y ago
> Worth pointing out (for those of you not in the storage game) that these appliances, while cool, are pretty far from state of the art.
So basically you decided to go into this thread, post something that isn't possible for anyone here to corroborate and call the original post "far from state of the art"...to what end? What was the purpose of your posting? Just to toot your own horn? I don't get it.
If you want to talk about how awesome or state of the art your company does things then great do that. But your actual post? It just comes off as childish like someone showing off they can do something and you're that person that has to stand in between them and the people watching them to say you can do it too and better. Surely we've all seen those very awkward moments in sitcoms.
> We're (Dropbox) packing up to an order of magnitude more storage into 4U.
Are you sure? They can pack up to 180TB into 4U so you're saying DropBox can pack up to 1,800TB into 4U?
- keypusher 11y agoI don't work at Dropbox, but I do work in storage. I've seen similar systems pack ~250-500TB into a 4U box. 60 drives x 6TB drives = 360TB. Not sure how you would get anywhere over 1000TB with today's spinning drives. There is a vendor linked in Backblaze blog post (45drives) which sells 60 drive enclosures, which they somehow list at 480TB but I'm not sure how the math works out there. However, keep in mind that usable capacity is going to be less. Erasure coding has significantly less overhead than traditional raid, but there is still a cost (depends on chosen protection set). http://www.45drives.com/products/storage/xl60.php http://www.45drives.com/products/storage/xl60.php
- qaq 11y agosupermicro has 72 drive server and 90 drives JBOD
- dmourati 11y agoWe used these and affectionately called them the mullet as in business in the front, party in the rear. http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/847/sc847de26-r2k02jbod.cfm http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4u/847/sc847de26-...