Are thumpers still interesting in 2011 ? (raidz3 on x4500 @ 3.0gbps ...)

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2011-Jul-05 14:20:39 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
>It's a bit outdated, but here are the plans for a do-it-yourself 
>slightly scaled down Thumper-like server:
>
>http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

Note that that article doesn't address acoustic and vibration issues.
There's plenty of evidence that disks are very sensitive to vibration
- even at low levels, it will adversely impact performance.  Designing
a box to provide optimal throughput with 48 disks is going to need a
lot more attention to vibration isolation and damping than is shown.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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