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

[Tom Evans]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:
> 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It's a bit outdated, but here are the plans for a do-it-yourself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.
>

Apart from the paragraph where they mention that they use nylon
standoffs to provide vibration dampening?

Cheers

Tom