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PetaBox: Big Storage in Small Boxes

Posted by timothy on from the always-impressive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "LinuxDevices.com is reporting that a Linux-based system comprising more than a petabyte of storage as been delivered to the Internet Archive, the non-profit organization that creates periodic snapshots of the Internet. The PetaBox products, made by Capricorn Technologies, are based on Via mini-ITX motherboards running Debian or Fedora Linux. The IA's PetaBox installation consists of about 16 racks housing 600 systems with 2,500 spinning drives, for a total capacity of roughly 1.5 petabytes, according to the article. Now to strap one of those puppies to my iPod!" The Internet Archive continues to astound.

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  1. great usage. by Bananatree3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seriously, I think archive.org deservese sutch a storage system. I have very often wanted to go back to view an archive of a website a while ago, but the cache on Google was from yesterday. It also gives multiple archives of the website based on day which can be quite handy, especially for news related sites. I think they quite well deserve it.

  2. Slashdotted .... by theoddbot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mirrordot to the rescue :)

    http://mirrordot.org/stories/83ede29a5f303f8c47d1d 70a9ef91f0d/index.html

  3. Re:No redundancy? WTF? by Depili · · Score: 4, Informative

    Acording to the archive.org (http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php) they indeed have some redundancy, but not raid. They are operating each system as a separete node, and mirroring nodes. The above link also sheds light on other questions regarding TFA