[ale] They say drives fail in pairs...

[Michael Trausch]

On 01/03/2012 06:44 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
> 
> 45 drives in a 4U = 135TB (and a back brace!)

Re-reading that, I laugh at the drive price...

Yesterday, I bought a 1.0 TB drive for $140; today one for $180.  They
say 1½ TB for $120.  I wonder if such days will return...

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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