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> Hamilton didn’t talk a lot about AWS’s custom-built storage, but he did share one tidbit. The densest storage servers you can buy commercially today come from
by alexkus 13y ago
> Hamilton didn’t talk a lot about AWS’s custom-built storage, but he did share one tidbit. The densest storage servers you can buy commercially today come from Quanta, and a rack full of them would weigh in at about three-quarters of a ton. “We have a far denser design — it is more than a ton,” Hamilton said.
Interesting. For reference; a Backblaze pod is 4U and weighs 145 pounds, so 10 of them in a standard 42U rack would be 1450 pounds = 0.715 (short) tons (or ~648kg).
- sparkman55 13y agoFor many colo centers, there are both weight and power limitations on a per-rack (or per-cabinet / per-row) basis. One wouldn't want a ton of disks crashing through the (often raised) floor! For compute clusters, power is often the limiting factor; for storage clusters, weight is often the limiting factor. If you put these clusters in a general-purpose colocation facility, you'll end up with half-full racks. Density on a per-rack-unit basis is not necessarily important for most of us. Of course, if you're Amazon's size, you build your own facilities, and you can make sure to support the weight and power requirements of whatever custom hardware you can dream up!
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- rgbrenner 13y agoquanta is 60 3.5" hdds in 4u (compared with 45 for backblaze)