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SuperMicro has 72 drives in a single system, with 10TB drives you are hitting 720TB in a single 4U package. Dell also has their DSS7000, which is 90 drives in

• rsync 11y ago
  Once you go past the 45 drive JBOD (which costs $2000 give or take) the price per slot starts to go up quickly ... the last quote we had for the supermicro 90 drive JBOD was $9000. So if you are optimizing for rackspace, it might make sense, but if you're keeping costs down, the 45 drive chassis is the best bet.
  • toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Have you considered using the Backblaze pods?
    • rsync 11y ago
      Yes, from the very beginning, but they are based on SATA expanders and have relatively very poor performance. They are really built specifically for that workload and not for a lot of other storage workloads. That was depressing circa the first BB pods where there really wasn't another option (other than using a Sun Thumper/x4500, which we also considered) ... but now the chassis options from supermicro are so good - ranging from 45-90 drives - that it's not a problem at all.
  • X-Istence 11y ago
    The Dell DSS7000 chassis without the computer nodes on the back (which are a requirement (45 drives per compute node)) is cheaper than the 90 disk JBOD from SuperMicro. I can't disclose pricing, but it may be worth reaching out to Dell for what they can offer there. You might be able to get better density for similar pricing. Just a suggestion :-)