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Side story: A company I worked for built a 60 drive unit similar to this. On some of their early prototypes, they could hit power issues when all the drives sp
by kyrra 13y ago
Side story: A company I worked for built a 60 drive unit similar to this. On some of their early prototypes, they could hit power issues when all the drives spun up at once (someone forgot to do their math). So all the development on it had to be done with 3/4 the drives it actually supported. Story #2: A 4U enclosure fully loaded with 60 drives goes beyond the shipping weight limit for Fedex and UPS. You need to either freight ship it or not ship it loaded with drives.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoDid their SATA interface not support staggered spinups? Almost all do.
- kyrra 13y agoI believe they did. It may have also done it when all drives were running at max speed... I honestly forget at this point (it's been 7 years or so). It was just the hardware guys screwing up on power distribution and calculated power draw from the drives. Luckily they were prototypes.