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

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 2, 2009 @02:09AM from the we-know-exactly-what-you'd-do-with-that-much-storage dept.

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

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