Patrick sent me this and I thought it was interesting: 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,… Continue reading How to build cheap storage
Category: Data Center
It’s all in the Clouds…
Recently I attended the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. One of the big pushes that is on the minds of everyone these days, is the Cloud Computing concept. As a Systems Engineer, the thought is that I should be afraid of this push, because it moves the processing out of the datacenter and into… Continue reading It’s all in the Clouds…
Raise Your Data Center Temperature
After following a link to a story about Google’s abilities to “route around outages” that Patrick had on his Blog, I saw a link to another story about Google’s Data Center practices. Apparently you don’t have to keep the Data Center frigid these days… Most data centers operate in a temperature range between 68 and… Continue reading Raise Your Data Center Temperature
Storage Power and Cooling Issues Heat Up
I am doing some research into our data center cooling requirements. I came across this article and thought this bit was interesting: So how much does it cost to power 100TB (raw) of storage, and how much CO2 emissions are generated per year? That, of course, depends on the type of storage, the number and size of… Continue reading Storage Power and Cooling Issues Heat Up