The Minority Report

That is a lot of fucking storage!! I’ve used various SAN’s and NAS techonologies over the years, HP MSA1500, B2000 and the Lefthand boxen. Fibrechannel and iSCSI connections and I would recommend the Lefthand SAN at this point.

However, this is a lot of fucking storage and they are giving away the design for free! Of course, the secret sauce is the software and I’m sure the cloud/data center part is complicated but DAMN!

It’s totally worth the read.

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867.

In this post, we’ll share how to make one of these storage pods, and you’re welcome to use this design. Our hope is that by sharing, others can benefit and, ultimately, refine this concept and send improvements back to us. Evolving and lowering costs is critical to our continuing success at Backblaze.
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog