[mythtv-users] BackBlaze hard drive study

[Jeff Breitner]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
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> Supermicro's high density file server is an even clumsier design where
> half the hotswap bays are on the back side of the machine.


It is only clumsy if you make bad choices concerning rack depth, PDUs or
the mounting of them.  On these beasts, you are probably going to need to
slide the server out a few inches to get at the left most and right most
columns of drives.


> 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.
>

That doesn't look any less clumsy if you expect to keep the box online
during drive replacements.  Now you need to assure proper cable management
for the 30" of service slack you'll need once every other quarter to
replace a drive.
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