Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0

Post by kalleboo » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 6:06 AM UTC

michaelt wrote: post #137

codemac wrote: post #49

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What order of magnitude? There are 60 drive chassis in 4U you can get[0][1], but even a 4TB -> 6TB drive + 15 more drives isn't exactly an order of magnitude. And they have 2 10GiB ports, though I'm sure you can work with them and get more.. It's disingenuous to call this not "state of the art" when it's really quite close, and obviously is meeting a backblaze design goal. [0]: http://www.newisys.com/Products/4600.sh…

What order of magnitude? Well, this article describes storage pods with 180TB of storage. HGST have a 10TB hard drive measuring 26.1mm * 101.6mm * 147mm [1] and a 4U chassis measures 178mm * 437mm * 521mm [2] If you had 4U of hard drives with no space for power, cooling, interconnect etc you cold fit 10 terabytes / (26.1mm * 101.6mm * 147mm) * (178mm * 437mm * 521mm) = 1.04 petabytes into 4U I don't know whether six…

Post by kalleboo » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 6:35 AM UTC

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rgoodwintx wrote: post #8

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Details? I don't work for BB, but have worked in the backup industry for some time in my past, and always curious.

Not the OP, have used BB for 5 years (and still using, the service is totally fine): Initial sync is a nighmare. The upload is on the slow side. Biggest gripe so far is that I just cannot tell the client that some files are more important than the others. I would love my pdf invoices and changed KDBX files to be synced before uploading the uncompressed blu ray of Guardians of the galaxy. On the other hand there are p…

Post by DanWaterworth » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 7:37 AM UTC

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greglindahl wrote: post #114

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That's the situation I was talking about, yes. It's much cheaper to go into the datacenter once a month to replace failed data disks than to have to go in to promptly replace any system disk HDD that fails, in order to not have 60 idle disks.

Sure, that would make sense if they only had personnel in the datacenter once a month, but: "we replace about 10 drives every day" [1]. [1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

Post by bartvk » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 8:10 AM UTC

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I imagine the marketing angle must be pretty big. Not only making people aware of your service, but convincing people to use it. A big question when selecting any online backup service is, "are these people I'm trusting with my data complete idiots?" Your posts should really help convince a lot of people that you are, in fact, not complete idiots. For what it's worth, I've been a happy customer for years and try to s…

We have gotten some other benefits as well. One of our senior support reps decided to join us after reading an IAmA where we talked about the Storage Pods. We just recently hired a senior sys admin and the head of Facebook's Prineville data center, both of whom were a result of reading our storage posts. Also, when we work with contract manufacturers on building storage pods, talk with data centers about space, etc.,…

Post by bartvk » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 8:31 AM UTC

therobot24 wrote: post #93

rgoodwintx wrote: post #8

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Details? I don't work for BB, but have worked in the backup industry for some time in my past, and always curious.

takes forever, and now the file list takes 8GB+ of space - support says the only way to fix the problem is to create a new account and go through the months of backing everything up again