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Old January 22nd 16, 07:00 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Lynn McGuire[_2_]
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"Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-5-0-hack/

Nice! A 180 TB server for under $10,000.

Lynn
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Old January 22nd 16, 09:08 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Percival P. Cassidy
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On 01/22/2016 01:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-5-0-hack/

Nice! A 180 TB server for under $10,000.


Are PSUs now so reliable that redundancy is unnecessary?

Perce

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Old January 22nd 16, 11:08 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Mark Perkins
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:08:09 -0500, "Percival P. Cassidy"
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On 01/22/2016 01:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-5-0-hack/

Nice! A 180 TB server for under $10,000.


Are PSUs now so reliable that redundancy is unnecessary?


They mentioned in the article that even when they used dual PSUs, it wasn't
for redundancy. You can't lose something you never had.

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Old January 25th 16, 01:29 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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On 1/23/2016 2:00 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"Storage Pod 5.0 Hack: One Power Supply"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/storage-pod-5-0-hack/

Nice! A 180 TB server for under $10,000.


And fill them with files created with /dev/random?

 




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