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At KeepVault we've been using Supermicro since day 1 (pre-2007) and they've worked out very well. Supermicro is more expensive (on multiple metrics), but you're
by nanch 13y ago
At KeepVault we've been using Supermicro since day 1 (pre-2007) and they've worked out very well. Supermicro is more expensive (on multiple metrics), but you're also getting different features like entry-level cost and power redundancy.
What happens when a Backblaze pod power-supply fails? I'd love to see a post about that. :)
David, KeepVault CEO
- derekp7 13y ago> What happens when a Backblaze pod power-supply fails? From what I understand, the whole pod becomes unavailable. Which is why you would use a front-end system to have redundancy across pods. The way I would do it myself, is set up network connections between two pods, and use DRBD, along with clustering software for the iSCSI or NAS (nfs/samba) daemons.
- e12e 13y agoFrom an older blog, they hint at their architecture, basically storage over https -- with a little effort to make sure pods don't drop dead too easily (raid6): http://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage.html http://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-... For replicating a similar architecture, I'd probably look at HekaFS/GlusterFS and/or CEPH.