[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

Greg Cope gregcope at gmail.com
Tue Jan 21 21:59:22 UTC 2014


On 21 January 2014 21:57, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karl Dietz" <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org>
>
> > If you don't like their controllers / storage philosophy you can look
> > at a variant of their design at
> > https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
>
> I was myself a bit surprised that they made the packaging tradeoff they
> did; I'm pretty sure SuperMicro has chassis with 45 drives in the same
> RU count where all the drives are externally accessible.
>
> I guess if your super-architecture makes it not matter that you have
> to down an entire string to reap a dead drive...
>

Is the point they do not bother with reaping dead drives and leave it
failed?




>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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