Petabyte on a Budget Revisited: The Evolution of Storage

Co-Founder and VP Sales & Marketing Doug Milburn talks about the evolution of storage technology from a point in September 2009 until present day. He takes a look at Backblaze's iconic "Petabyte on a Budget" blog released in 2009 and explains how the storage technology has advanced in present day today with the Storinator Storage Servers.

[kenGPT]

Can we see a video on how to set up gluster on top of ZFS like this?

[movaxh]

So, by using the consumer drives you should bring the cost even lower with these machines? If I invest in lets say 10 servers, and proper clustering solution, higher drive failures compered to enterprise drives shouldn't be a big problem, and shouldn't add much to the maintenance costs. The enterprise drives will not have so much better reliability, and are much more expensive. Many consumer nas-ready drives also work well with environment with a lot of vibrations, as in big server like that. Use of enterprise drives (and controllers), only make sense if you have 2 or 3 of these servers, and you cannot afford to loose any server for long time.

[dorinxtg]

According to the latest Backblaze report, buying enterprise drives doesn't worth the money.

[MsUltrafox]

Like a normal person has an 80K budget for storage.