[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:51 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
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>     Shouldn't matter in a proper rack which side they're on or even if
> they are on both sides of the box. Being accessible without opening the
> chassis or pulling the whole thing out of the rack is a defnite advantage.

Thumper's (and their follow-on's, Thor's), with the right rack, and the
right cable management, were 100% disk (and fan, and PS)
maintainable while staying in service.  If you never used them,
you probably have no appreciation of how well they were designed
for online maintenance, and were (essentially) designed for
using ZFS (although some people used them differently).