After the Thecus?.. 67 Terabytes for $7,867.

[Gesus]

Hey all,

I've got a N5200 Pro with 5 x 1TB drives. Was thinking about upgrading it soon.. but then I saw this article:

blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

67 Terabytes for $7,867..

What do people think?

[emg]

Sept 2, 2009 17:37:36 GMT 7 Gesus said:

Hey all,

I've got a N5200 Pro with 5 x 1TB drives. Was thinking about upgrading it soon.. but then I saw this article:

blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

67 Terabytes for $7,867..

What do people think?

Good luck with a finished solution at that price - it's still a fantastic value at $10K. The custom case fabrication could be the cost overrun - this is still a way cool idea.

I think these are the perfect solution for home media servers **IF** you want to store media locally - 67TB is only about 1700 (40GB ea.) BluRay movies, so you should have some time before you fill it up and need another. However, the cost of hardware is plummeting rapidly, so in a couple of years' time, you should be able to buy/build a server on this scale for a lot less than you can today (if you can wait).

If your needs are a bit more modest, an N8800 with 8 2TB HDDs (13+TB RAID5, 300-400+Mbps SMB/CIFS sustained write speed) can be had for about $3K.