[Cialug] HW, anyone?

[Will]

My cousin works with 45 Drives as a consultant, which is a company that
sells the back blaze units for home. They work pretty well but I wouldn't
reach for them in place of a SGI now HPe storage solution it you need
sustained rates and tons storage. If you need warm storage then they are by
far the cheapest way to get to a petabyte.

If you aren't willing to play with Ceph yet and you need redundancy (if
geospatial redundancy) then check out LizardFS.

-Will

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 09:53 Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Mike Hughes <mike at visionary.com> wrote:
>
> > Speaking of hardware we're looking to buy a new storage device(s) with
> > 30+TB capacity and high IOPS for databases & VMs. My dream would be to
> have
> > the option to fill a hybrid system with the latest NVMe as we can afford
> > them and stuff the rest with a couple rows of 2.5" HDDs for cold storage.
> >
> > We considered a BackBlaze Storage Pod (which are actually available if
> you
> > contact BackupPods directly) but I was scared off by the SPOF introduced
> by
> > the lack of dual controllers.
> >
>
> BackBlaze gets their redundancy by running many storage pods so they can
> save money by not using fancy RAID hardware. They generally deploy racks
> full of storage at a time.
>
>
> > Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with building and maintaining a
> > machine of this girth? Is it worth the hassle to avoid the vendor lock-in
> > that the major players insist on?
> >
>
> You might look into Ceph. It's open source so there's no vendor lock-in. I
> have a 40TB Ceph system at home running on used desktops that I picked up
> from Midwest Computer Recyclers. Ceph scales up to petabytes and can do
> iSCSI, S3 compatible storage, etc.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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