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I accidentally misspelled 'BackBlaze' in the title; can someone fix it please? Interesting decision by BackBlaze to stuff an extra row of drives in, lengthenin
by geerlingguy 11y ago
I accidentally misspelled 'BackBlaze' in the title; can someone fix it please?
Interesting decision by BackBlaze to stuff an extra row of drives in, lengthening the chassis to 33" instead of just under 29". It is their design, so they're free to do what they need for their own racks, but this does mean anyone trying to install a pod based on the 6.0 design couldn't use many closed-back racks or other kinds of racks.
- cthulhujr 11y agoAre they offering the 6.0 controllers, etc. with the standard length housing? I would think that's an option soon, if not now. Perhaps the 6.0 controllers have no benefit with fewer drives.
- brianwski 11y agoBrian from Backblaze here. Just to be absolutely clear, you cannot "buy" one of these from Backblaze. We don't sell them. You are free to take these instructions and assemble one yourself though! And so yes, you could simply drop the 6.0 controllers into an older chassis and it will work fine. Also, the 6.0 housing will fit in most racks. If somebody can either measure their racks or include a link where the 33" chassis will no longer fit, we really want to hear about it!
- toomuchtodo 11y agoProtocase, the vendor Backblaze sourced to fabricate the enclosures, has their own subsidiary that'll sell you turnkey pods: http://www.45drives.com/ http://www.45drives.com/
- duskwuff 11y agoSurely they should be rebranding to 60drives now? ;)
- gvb 11y agoPer the article, the electronics are unchanged, just 3 more backplanes and one SATA card: "When looking at what’s new in Storage Pod 6.0 it would easy to say it has 60 drives and stop there. After all, the Motherboard, CPU, memory, SATA cards, and backplanes we use didn’t change from 5.0." Later in the bullet list of changes: "Added 3 more backplanes and 1 more SATA card."
- throwanem 11y agoPresumably the first statement refers to make and model, rather than quantity, in which an increase is implied by the increase in number of drives.
- atYevP 11y agoYev from Backblaze here -> You can buy these pods (well, not 6.0 at the moment, but previous versions) from BackupPods -> http://www.backuppods.com/ http://www.backuppods.com/
- brianwski 11y agoBrian from Backblaze here. Aren't most standard closed racks 36" deep? From this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack "... A standard 19-inch server rack cabinet is typically 42u in height, 19-inch wide, and 36 inches deep ..."
- Sanddancer 11y agoMany are at 36 inches, but 30 inches is also a pretty popular rack depth.
- teh_klev 11y agoEx-data centre bod here....from my experience, in the DC's I've worked in (in the UK and Europe), the racks used were most often 600mm(w) x 800mm(d) 42U, or 800x800 racks if the rack was densely cabled (i.e. there being a gap on either side of the 19" frame to bring in cable from the sides). These would then sit on 600x600 raised floor tiles, which was a convenient thing, geometry-wise. But that was back in the late 90's/early 2000's, so things might have changed.
- dang 11y agoWe changed the title to that of the article, which is what you should use unless it is misleading or linkbait. That's in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Another guideline in there that applies here is the one about not repeating the name of the company when it's already mentioned in the domain to the right of the title. That's a minor point, of course, but one that has had surprisingly good effects.