<div dir="ltr">Have you seen this?<div><br></div><div><a href="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-cheap-cloud-storage.html</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 18px; ">At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867.</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Cute.</div><div><br></div><div>-Mike</div><div><br><div><div class="uiTextSubtitle commentActions" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; padding-top: 2px; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">
<span class="uiTextSubtitle comment_like_1736554" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; "></span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/9 Hetz Ben Hamo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hetzbh@gmail.com">hetzbh@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;border-right:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"><div dir="rtl"><div dir="ltr">Hi people,</div><div dir="ltr">I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my <a href="http://hetz.biz" target="_blank">VPS business</a>. I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my own. (12 TB before all the RAID stuff, after that it would lot less). All other solutions are very expensive (example: IBM EXP 3000 costs here 6K nis without a single hard disk). </div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I'm planning to use hardware based RAID card, minimal Linux distribution and have some offers like iSCSI, NFS, CIFS - the usual suspects.<br clear="all"><br></div><div dir="ltr">
My question is: since I'll use hardware RAID card, which processor and how much RAM should I put in such a machine? Xeon is overkill IIRC.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">What do you suggest?</div><div dir="ltr">
<br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks and Shana Tova</div><div dir="ltr">Hetz</div><div dir="ltr"><br>-- <br>my blog (hebrew): <a href="http://benhamo.org" target="_blank">http://benhamo.org</a><br>Skype: heunique<br>MSN: <a href="mailto:hetz-blog@benhamo.org" target="_blank">hetz-blog@benhamo.org</a><br>
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