Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k

Chris Pirazzi writes "Online backup startup BackBlaze, disgusted with the outrageously overpriced offerings from EMC, NetApp and the like, has released an open-source hardware design showing you how to build a 4U, RAID-capable, rack-mounted, Linux-based server using commodity parts that contains 67 terabytes of storage at a material cost of $7,867. This works out to roughly $117,000 per petabyte, which would cost you around $2.8 million from Amazon or EMC. They have a full parts list and diagrams showing how they put everything together. Their blog states: 'Our hope is that by sharing, others can benefit and, ultimately, refine this concept and send improvements back to us.'"

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Cost/Benefit?

[mpapet]

Oh, please stop with the rationale that *something* is accomplished with the average PHB cost/benefit analysis.

The *vast* majority of the time both the costs and benefits are fabricated out of whole cloth to support a foregone conclusion.