These guys at ‘backblaze’ claim to be able to provide 67TB for $7,867 based on 45 SATA drives, RAID6 (Linux) and JFS. The hardware design which is presented in the blog as a how-to uses vertically stacked drives and looks very much like the Sun ‘Thumper’ (X4500) device which I first saw...
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Details on Disk Drive failure modes.
This detailed paper “Hard disk drives, the good, the bad and the ugly” describes the many failure modes of modern disk drives. Jon Elerath outlines the many causes of silent data corruption, and the steps taken by HDD manufacturers to recover from transient errors. This is interesting from a performance perspective since...
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