[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

[Yan Seiner]

On 01/22/2014 06:00 AM, Jon Heizer wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info 
> <mailto:support at drdos.info>> wrote:
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>     >> Yup; *that's* the one I wanted.  Loses an extra rackspace,
>     though; you can
>     >> have 14 3Us, but only 10 of those and 2 empty spaces.
>
>     I've been looking at this:
>
>     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021
>
> I would highly recommend this case.  We have it filled 1/2 15k SAS 
> drives and 1/2 SATA SSDs in ZFS arrays and it has been amazing. 
>  Though we use 5 gbit cabrds instead of fiber channel.  Pretty quiet 
> for what it is and everything stays pretty cool.  One thing to watch 
> out for if you buy it is drives' backplane takes molex power and that 
> many can be rare on a PSU things days.  We have a bunch of SATA to 
> Molex adapters and Y cables.
>
I can't believe this case is still around.  I just scrapped one. It's a 
great case, the trays are little more than aluminum foil, but hopefully 
you only pull them out every 3 years or so.

Mine was the old one with SATA only connections; no SAS.  It was rock 
reliable for the 5 or 7 years I had it, but with 4GB drives available I 
no longer needed 20 spinning drives.

I didn't realize how much heat and noise that case put out though... My 
office is at the end of the house, with 3 outside walls, and it was 
never cold.  Now with it gone, and replaced with just 6 drives, I have 
to have a small electric heater to keep the room above 50*F.

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