Have you seen this? http://www.backblaze.com/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage.html
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. Cute. -Mike 2010/9/9 Hetz Ben Hamo <het...@gmail.com> > Hi people, > I'm planning to add some big storage solution to my VPS > business<http://hetz.biz>. > I did some checking and calculated the costs, and figured out that if I want > to have a decent 12TB solution NAS box, it would be best if I would roll my > own. (12 TB before all the RAID stuff, after that it would lot less). All > other solutions are very expensive (example: IBM EXP 3000 costs here 6K nis > without a single hard disk). > > I'm planning to use hardware based RAID card, minimal Linux distribution > and have some offers like iSCSI, NFS, CIFS - the usual suspects. > > My question is: since I'll use hardware RAID card, which processor and how > much RAM should I put in such a machine? Xeon is overkill IIRC. > > What do you suggest? > > Thanks and Shana Tova > Hetz > > -- > my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org > Skype: heunique > MSN: hetz-b...@benhamo.org > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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