RackWire.com Blog and Knowledge Base Articles » cloud storage http://blog.rackwire.com Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:20:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Backblaze Storage on Motherboard #2 http://blog.rackwire.com/2009/10/backblaze-storage-motherboard-harddrive/ http://blog.rackwire.com/2009/10/backblaze-storage-motherboard-harddrive/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:36:57 +0000 Mike http://blog.rackwire.com/?p=160 For the Backblaze Motherboard we went with a Intel DG43NB ATX Motherboard.  About an hour after getting the first one up and running it failed and would not boot to the bios.  This is before we even managed to put the drives in.  With electronics, they say if something is going to fail, it will fail within the first few days.  So we are now on Motherboard number two.  With success we are up to loading the 2.0 TB Hitachi Hard Drives, should not take long to Format 45 Drives Right?

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Initial unboxing of the Backblaze case, it is a simple and well thought out device.  With a 4U Rack Footprint, the custom case houses 4 SATA Cards, Dual Power Supplies, single motherboard and 4 GB RAM.  The catch, it can hold a whopping 45 Hard Drives!  The biggest line item cost is the drives, if you purchase 45 2-Terrabyte Drives you are looking at around 7K in drives alone.  Still overall very low cost for the amount of storage a single device can bring.    

From a marketing standpoint, they did the job right.  It has been powder coated fire engine red to stand out.  It will be the most recognized device in one of our Datacenter Racks, next to a Yellow Kemp Load Balancer.

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To find out more about the Backblaze storage pod visit their blog, How to build cheap cloud storage.  Check back here next week for our IO and Vibration testing of the Backblaze devices.



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