[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 1/21/14, 6:33 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/21/2014 4:57 PM, Jay Ashworth 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.
>
> Supermicro's high density file server is an even clumsier design where
> half the hotswap bays are on the back side of the machine.
>
>> I guess if your super-architecture makes it not matter that you have
>> to down an entire string to reap a dead drive...
>
> You don't have to take down an entire box.  The design is just a dirty
> homebrew version of Sun's Thumper boxes.  The drives are still on a
> backplane and hotswappable.  You merely have to slide the machine out
> on its (very stout) rails and open the lid to access the hotswap bays.
>
> http://atlas1.atlas.aei.uni-hannover.de/~carsten/ClusterPhotos/BenjaminKnispel-AEI/Storage/tn/Sun-Thumper-Storage-3.med.jpg
>
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