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by ganoushoreilly
1329 days ago
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I notice in the pictures they're still using their Pod storage systems for imagery, didn't they switch over to a Supermicro chassis recently? j I'm curious if so what they settled on with density, 45-60-90 drives? Servers or Jbods etc. Over the years, 45drives has put an extreme premium on their systems compared to supermicro. We have a half dozen or so of the storinator chassis and we've switched back to supermicro high density storage systems, including some of their top load 90 bay jbods. It's been more cost effective for us, i'm wondering if that's the same for Backblaze. I've been a backblaze customer for around 10 years, it's been great for home systems. Always love this transparency in their reports. |
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They don't state exactly what they're using, only that they're "Dell Servers" which honestly aren't the densest things in the world. I would've thought they'd go for something like the PowerVaults which can fit 84 drives into 5U, which is a little bit denser than their current storage pod configuration (60 drives in 4U).
I did recently do a comparison with our low end servers compared to a JBOD array with the same amount of storage and the uplift for the server configuration was about 10%, give or take. That was limited to a total of 24 drives in 2U however, so not sure how that'd compare to the larger PowerVault arrays or JBODs.
I've been a customer of Backblaze as well for about 6 years now and agree, it's been brilliant for backing up my home network! The reports helped me choose the right drives numerous times over, love their work.