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Title: Couldn't resist not to share with all you fellow system builders.
Post by: CanaryInTheMine on July 21, 2011, 03:06:57 PM
A bit unrelated, but damn interesting!
Couldn't resist not to share with you all fellow miners:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90634-how-to-build-your-own-135tb-raid6-storage-pod-for-7384


Title: Re: Couldn't resist not to share with all you fellow system builders.
Post by: haploid23 on July 22, 2011, 09:00:12 PM
although i would have no personal use for something like this, nevertheless it's still pretty cool. after reading it, it seems like the average computer joe can put something like this together


Title: Re: Couldn't resist not to share with all you fellow system builders.
Post by: xurious on July 22, 2011, 09:41:12 PM
I would skip right over raid 6 and use ZFS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

And extremetech is a crap website. They reprint old news everyday, or the article is garbage.

The original article is pretty much just an update to this: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/



Title: Re: Couldn't resist not to share with all you fellow system builders.
Post by: Mousepotato on July 22, 2011, 09:44:59 PM
although i would have no personal use for something like this, nevertheless it's still pretty cool. after reading it, it seems like the average computer joe can put something like this together

You could use it to store almost half of your pr0n collection? :)


Title: Re: Couldn't resist not to share with all you fellow system builders.
Post by: Smalleyster on July 23, 2011, 02:34:01 AM
A bit unrelated, but damn interesting!
Couldn't resist not to share with you all fellow miners:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90634-how-to-build-your-own-135tb-raid6-storage-pod-for-7384


That is flat out cool.