Sun engineer responds to the Backblaze "Petabytes on a budget" design
That's a pretty weird analysis, comparing a system that is special purpose with a general purpose one.<p>He's concentrating on disk-to-board throughput, but this being network attached storage on a LAN, using the motherboards' single ethernet port the amount of data read or written to those drives per second will never exceed 1 Gbit/second anyway.<p>I agree with the reliability analysis though, backblaze seems to be on fairly thin ice there.<p>Still, it seems to work for backblaze, I'm taking it as read that they've lived through a bunch of drive failures by now and they seem to still be in business.