Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Building an 8TB SD

2010-03-02 08:57:41
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Building an 8TB SD
From: Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:20:56 +0000 (UTC)
Am Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:20:58 -0500 schrieb Dan Langille:

> I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB.
> 
> This is where you should start:
> 
>    http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/
> 
> Earlier: the hardware selection process
> 
> Later: some slight refinements.
> 
> Goal: A FreeBSD 8.x system with a ZFS filesystem on 5x2TB HDD.
> 
> Price: about $1800 I think.
> 
> I should be building it this weekend.
> 
> Yes: I could have built it cheaper.  The main goal: big and decently
> reliable.

some interesting thoughts about building "cheap" storage:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

- Thomas


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