The BB is cheap, low end parts I wouldn't use for my own desktop let alone my storage system for work. The SAM-SD is not a consumer device like the BB. So from a purely storage perspective, the BackBlaze should be able to go to 90TB in that chassis. The BackBlaze is complex to set up as you have to build it yourself. Is there an advantage to the SAM device you spec'd out or the back blaze box? ZFS was designed not to scale this big but to start this big!!) ZFS2 will also handle your software RAID for you along with your logical volume management making a system of this size easier to handle.Ĭause I want to make a storage server for some VM's so my plan is to use dual nic card on the private VM network and the onboard for the regular LAN. ZFS was invented specifically to support Thumper (which is 48 drives in a 4U chassis) and is the only filesystem designed with the intent of being robust enough to handle this many spindles and this kind of filesystem size (yes, XFS should get this big but still. However, due to the scale of 45 drives I would serious recommend looking into OpenSolaris with ZFS2. That is really where this becomes useful, making it SAN or NAS.
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OpenFiler or FreeNAS could certainly run here and share out as iSCSI (or even FC) making this a full blown SAN solution.
If you can withstand the reliability factors for archival storage this is a no-brainer for massive online storage.
Higher density than the SAM-SD but slightly lower (by 1.5TB/U) than the Thumper (x4540). non-hotswap, no support, not top tier) version of the SAM-SD or Thumper. This is very much like a non-enterprise (i.e. That's awesome that Protocase is going to sell the chassis.
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