[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jan 22 02:43:04 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raymond Wagner" <raymond at wagnerrp.com>

> Supermicro's high density file server is an even clumsier design where
> half the hotswap bays are on the back side of the machine.

Yeah, I knew that.

> You don't have to take down an entire box. The design is just a dirty
> homebrew version of Sun's Thumper boxes. The drives are still on a
> backplane and hotswappable. You merely have to slide the machine out
> on its (very stout) rails and open the lid to access the hotswap bays.
> 
> http://atlas1.atlas.aei.uni-hannover.de/~carsten/ClusterPhotos/BenjaminKnispel-AEI/Storage/tn/Sun-Thumper-Storage-3.med.jpg

Aha.  See, that's out of my usual territory, climbing.  Thanks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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