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.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.I agree with the reliability analysis though, backblaze seems to be on fairly thin ice there.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.