Backblaze storage pod 6 buy software#

So each of these nodes consist of 46 disks. If I’m chasing this down the wrong path, please let me know. Please, in the truest sense of research and commentary, provide feedback. Now, there are also solutions here (unlike a lot of comments here). There are a number of points i’d like to address. I wouldn’t build one of these for personal use or for my business.

Backblaze storage pod 6 buy software#

I’m just saying take another look at it and recognize that none of us have the whole picture due to the missing software component. Cheap interface board (mobo, cpu, ram, boot drive) and high capacity in the hardware were the goal of the project, allowing the maintainers to write the redundancy into the software end and not worry about a higher downtime per box, because the box itself isn’t critical. My assumption is that these boxes are seen as expensive 67TB hard drives in themselves. I’ve read some comments trashing speed, but when you realize that most people don’t have a fat enough pipe to strain these servers, that’s not an issue either. When you can build the hardware for next to nothing compared to commercial hardware storage solutions, who cares if you lose an entire rack of these boxes, because they were so cheap to build, they have 6 other copies of the data (made up number) in other racks and data centers. The beauty of this solution is in the software (which no one has access to, and they don’t really want to talk about – naturally, because that is their business edge) and how that software doesn’t require huge, complex redundant hardware systems. The redundancy isn’t in the hardware (each red box is essentially designed to be throw away as I understand the solution).

I think most of the negative comments on this solution are due to the lack of access to the software that runs the solution.