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Mother of the bride — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:16:19 -0000

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sleeprunner — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:40:14 -0000

This sounds like it could be a great alternative Self storage drive solution. Especially considering prices of the other options, I never realized it could be so expensive!

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lawries — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:07:38 -0000

Does anyone know what the performance figures of this drive system is. As I found it via HPC links and that is usually the most critical measurement of disks for HPC. Performance behind a single controller (or in this case motherboard) would be nice to know. So many people are looking into cheap commodity servers but have not seen much on storage in the HPC environment where they often work in PetaBytes so vendor products are costly.

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darkfall gold — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:24:16 -0000

It is very good of this post:Backblaze sets its cheap storage designs free.I like to see it.Very interesting.These devices are not terribly reliable, and when one fails, guess what - 5 drives fall off the machine at once causing the RAID to become unusable.Have a good time.

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Name — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:57:20 -0000

@Eldon

Please add a site to back up your claim about sata multiplier not being reliable, otherwise your example is too general about one failing. It's no different than a hardware raid controller failing. So that platitude is quite useless.

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hrs2423 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:59:43 -0000

Take this interesting piece of hardware and add the free ZFS file system (from SUN/Oracle) and you have resiliency and a very low cost. While you might not want this as the primary host for a transaction based system, it would be fine for archive of data. ZFS give you SAN like features and file block redundancy so that even when drives and controllers fail you can still recover. We know they will fail. This is just a component in an architecture that could be used very cleverly if given some thought.

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murkymark — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:37:36 -0000

Grow some clue? Don't you mean get a clue? I've heard of grow some balls. But grow some clue? Sounds like you need to grow some clue with the language you attempt to speak in.

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Raj — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:46:25 -0000

Not sure about the other vendors, but to compare EMC Celerra to Amazon S3 using almost any metric results in a flawed comparison. They're two different beasts entirely. Both are great for different things, but not interchangeable in the least.

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Eldon Hoke — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:14:22 -0000

If you check out their design, you'll notice that they use a horrible piece of hardware known as a SATA Multiplier. This device allows you to plug more than one drive into a single SATA channel. These devices are not terribly reliable, and when one fails, guess what - 5 drives fall off the machine at once causing the RAID to become unusable. Yeah, I want to store data with these geniuses...

Seriously, grow some clue here...