Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog

Backblaze built their own crazy 67TB 4U servers made up of 45 1.5TB drives configured in 3 RAID6 pods of 15 drives each. All I can say is WOW, when are they getting into selling these things? I’m thinking of this setup combined with my hope that Oracle GPLs ZFS and I’m having a home network storagasm.

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog.

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