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If low volume is a problem for manufacturers because you don't need that much, the obvious solution is to increase volume by selling them. Of course that would introduce even more problems to solve, but at least volume wouldn't be one of them.
It's really amazing they made their own for so long... hardware is a commodity business.
Any idea what Dell is actually selling them? The DVR's we buy (Avigilon) are white Dell 7x0's with a custom white bezel, but those only fit 18 3.5" drives.
I’d love to know this as well. Dell doesn’t have anything remotely close to what Backblaze was designing/building themselves. So did they do something custom (unlikely at this volume) or did Backblaze change their hardware approach?
Any idea what Dell is actually selling them? The DVR's we buy (Avigilon) are white Dell 7x0's with a custom white bezel, but those only fit 18 3.5" drives.
[1] https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-ae/products/server...
https://www.servethehome.com/dell-emc-poweredge-xe7100-100-d...
Also, Dell and Supermicro have storage servers inspired by the BB Pods.
Glad to see this scrappy company hit this amount of scale; a long way from schucking Hard Drives
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You'd think they could build a ARM-powered, credit card sized controller for them with a disk breakout card and network IO. PC motherboard and full-sized cards seem like overkill.
A French SDS company, now owned by OVH, did exactly that a few years ago : https://fr.slideshare.net/openio/openio-serverless-storage-7... I don't think they actually sold any.
[1] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two/
Stating the obvious: Backblaze wants investors to value them like a SaaS company. This blog post suggests they’re more of a logistics and product company— huge capex and depreciating assets on hand. As a customer, I like their product, but they’re no Dropbox. If they would allow personal NAS then I could see them being a software company.
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> Given the bandwidth of 60+ hard drives (150MB/s per hard drive x 60 == 9GB/s in/out) Given their scale and goal, it would be pretty wasteful to build it to max the writing speed of all hard drives. Considering you rarely write on the pod, you would be better of getting a fraction of that speed and writing on multiple pods at the same time to get the required peak performance. In fact actually that makes much more s…
Definitely limited by the 1gbps or even 10gbs network connection
Like most blade setups, like (random example): https://www.storagereview.com/review/supermicro-x11-microbla...
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Definitely limited by the 1gbps or even 10gbs network connection
Any pod like this would normally have at least 1x40gbps uplink minimum? Like most blade setups, like (random example): https://www.storagereview.com/review/supermicro-x11-microbla...