[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study
jedi
jedi at mishnet.org
Wed Jan 22 00:51:06 UTC 2014
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 07:25:51PM -0500, Stephen P. Villano wrote:
>
> On 1/21/14, 6:33 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> > On 1/21/2014 4:57 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Karl Dietz" <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org>
> >>
> >>> If you don't like their controllers / storage philosophy you can look
> >>> at a variant of their design at
> >>> https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware
> >>
> >> I was myself a bit surprised that they made the packaging tradeoff they
> >> did; I'm pretty sure SuperMicro has chassis with 45 drives in the same
> >> RU count where all the drives are externally accessible.
> >
> > Supermicro's high density file server is an even clumsier design where
> > half the hotswap bays are on the back side of the machine.
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.
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