[pickle-wizard]

I had a similar problem at a past job. Though we only had a PB of data. We used a products called SwiftStack. It is open source, but they have paid support. I recommend getting support, as their support is really good. It is an object store like S3, but it has its own API. Though I think they now have an S3 compatible gateway now.

We had about 25 Dell R730xd servers. When the cluster would start to fill up, we would just replace drives with larger drives. Upgrading drives with SwiftStack is a piece of cake. When I left we were upgrading to 10TB drives as that was the best pricing. We didn't buy the drives from Dell as they were crazy expensive. We just bought drives from Amazon/New Egg, and kept some spares onsite. We got a better warranty that way too. Dell only had a 1 year warranty, but the drives we were buying had a 5 year warranty.

[neverartful]

Way late to the discussion, but I second the positive remarks on SwiftStack. It's in the easy button category in this case. The core storage engine of SwiftStack is open source (OpenStack Swift). However, the nice wrap-around tooling and web dashboard is not open source.