[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Wed Jan 22 03:33:59 UTC 2014


On 1/21/14, 10:27 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gary Buhrmaster" <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
>> Thumper's (and their follow-on's, Thor's), with the right rack, and
>> the right cable management, were 100% disk (and fan, and PS)
>> maintainable while staying in service. If you never used them,
>> you probably have no appreciation of how well they were designed
>> for online maintenance, and were (essentially) designed for
>> using ZFS (although some people used them differently).
> So, can I buy them cheap used, and use them as storage servers? :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
One would make a nice little iSCSI unit.  ;)
It might even manage to hold all of our pictures of our grandchildren!
<ducking>


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