[LinuxUsers] Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

[Chris Penn]

"The only part i don't like is the access to the drives is on top. Of
course to fit that many drives in, that was the only option.

There hardware setup isn't new. This is almost exactly what CoRAID
does. The difference is its nearly double the drives that CoRAID
offers."

Access to the drives from the top is also what Sun did with the X4500
series.  This is actually a nice way to get to the drives from my
experience.  The only change that I would have made would have been to
lower the bracket holding the drives in place.

Chris...

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Dino K<socallinux at cloudcomp.info> wrote:
> Interesting choice of JFS...  looks like a kernel module + userspace
> utility, so does that make it hybrid userspace filesystem??  I guess speed
> is not totally important when it comes to cloud storage.
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Chris Louden <chris at chrislouden.com> wrote:
>>
>> 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867
>>
>>
>> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
>>
>>
>> -Chris
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