Backblaze Storage Pod 4.0

[@DannyMinick]

Very impressed. You now have a new customer! And I will spread the word with my clients. Backblaze rocks!

[@rfahlsing]

Thanks for sharing your cool technology. I'm happy to know my backups are being performed by such an innovative, progressive company like Backblaze.

[@nulltrope]

Awesome, love keeping storage simple

[@TheRealShadowspawn]

This is an interesting design. I think it could be improved upon, it has a total benefit, but for starters: ducting for cooling. You have one row heating the air for the next row heating the air for the next, and for the final. Now I can't afford all of this that you have for an experiment but I do have a thermal imaging system. What I would do, if I just had a few hours to kill, would be to assemble a whole bunch of cheap (small capacity, yet functioning) drives along the backplane without any data cables, motherboard, just power to spin them. Close it up, put some of the "bubble-wrap" type windshield screen/sun-blocker around it, and fire it up, let it run at a specific temp/humidity environment. Scope out the temperature from the exhaust. Take off the wrap, take a thermal picture, cross-hair the temp of each drive as best you can. Repeat. I'd put good money that the drives in the back are eventually going to fail before the drives in the front. There's a good material that can be used (for high-pot voltage encasing) that will allow readings, transparent for outside scans, but maintaining thermal energy on the other side if you wanted to take stills at a certain FPS to watch it real-time. I mean if I had the resources, I'd do it for kicks. I still think that ducting would benefit longevity expectations, performance results, and reduction of energy consumption.

[@fUjiMaNia]

For those wondering here is the parts list and other specs of this beast : www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/

[@MaestroCipher]

Hello Tim. Amazing job! I'm very interested which RAID configurations and filesystems do Backblaze use. Could you reveal these details? And again: Backblaze is really cool! Thanks.

[@jacobcook245]

So, one petabyte for around $60,000? Amazing.

[@BradArnoldBA]

Very cool!

[@Bushchannel]

Cool

[@oldshield]

where is the blog?

[@samkent2272]

What are the mini sas to sata with the power connectors called? Where would you find them?

[@davidoconnell4100]

LOVE these videos. Kind of Storage Erotica :)

[@RyanFoon_]

Hi, where can find the back panel sas connecter?

[@jtapoling]

Did you have a custom power supply designed for this unit? I have the Zippy PSL-6580P but there are only two 12v power supply lines coming out of it like a conventional PC power supply. I would imagine I could put all the current across the two lines but I wanted to check with you in case you have tried that and came up short on power. Thanks for the info looking to start my machine up within the next day or two.

[@SnOrfus]

Not sure if this still matters but they're using the same PSU: www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/

[@MADBONE0]

what's the motherboard? do you have a link to specification sheet ??? ive got a spare 9k and this would be better for me then a large scale NAS

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

I am considering installing Linux and QuadStor on such a machine and making a Veeam repository server out of it. What IBM, EMC et al ask for their storage arrays is just plain ridiculous.

[@MADBONE0]

or use 1 Raid 750 use all 40 ports and remove 5 hdd for increased air flow ??? saves buying another raid card hmmmm

[@21Lettere]

No ESD protections?

[@sininetulnukas]

Lovely. :-) I just feel pity that the U.S. federal government with its 1984 ruins so much of the beautiful things that would otherwise take place in the U.S., but, with a "positive note", the Stalin and болшевики also ruined quite a lot at Russia and given the war at Ukraine it is apparent that the Russia has never recovered. I guess that thanks to the Internet there really are no borders any more. People work for companies that reside at the other side of the globe, use products that originate from the other side of the globe (China, Europe, USA) and U.S. politics is as important to Europeans as is the local politics. That includes the sad 1984, where journalists from WikiLeaks and other places are repressed, people are officially tortured by the U.S. government, etc. One can only hope that the Americans take care of their monstrous federal government sooner than the Germans "took care" of their Hitler gang. Otherwise it won't be just the Middle-East, Russia, China that the U.S. military strategists have to worry about. The Nazy Germany was powerful, but when the whole world turned against it, it crumbled. The only parts of the world that are not mad at the U.S. federal government are Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe. Canada is a small player, Japan is culturally isolated, "neutral" at best, Australia consists of mostly empty land and the moment the U.S. looses the support of Europe, the scales will tip over.