Who's got PetaBytes of Storage?

[RussellinSacto]

Apparently the folks over at BackBlaze do...  they get 67TB per machine on their rack (probably more since this page is 2 years old)...

 

I hadn't seen this and thought some of you might find it interesting:  http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

 

Russell

[StevenD]

We ADD 2-3 petabytes a year of storage at the company I work for.

[RussellinSacto]

Must be a huge company - apparently BackBlaze only has 10 PetaBytes:

 

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/01/05/10-petabytes-visualized/

 

Russell

[rilles]

1 big system with 50 PB, 1 big system with 90PB and a 150PB data warehouse system to mine the data from the first two.  Add about 5 PB a year.

 

All on HP SAN array's.... blows my mind what it costs to run these systems.

 

Backblaze doesn't indicate if it has any form of redundancy.. 67TB raw used as is, or 67TB (-) RAID overhead? if the wind blows, will their cloud turn into a clear blue sky?

 

 

[CrashnBrn]

if the wind blows, will their cloud turn into a clear blue sky?

 

Just wanted to say this quote is amazing! Is that somthing you just made up?

 

Sorry to get off track.

[theone]

1 big system with 50 PB, 1 big system with 90PB and a 150PB data warehouse system to mine the data from the first two.  Add about 5 PB a year.

 

All on HP SAN array's.... blows my mind what it costs to run these systems.

 

Backblaze doesn't indicate if it has any form of redundancy.. 67TB raw used as is, or 67TB (-) RAID overhead? if the wind blows, will their cloud turn into a clear blue sky?

 

 

 

about at the middle of:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

 

They show the software layers - It is RAID6 - so very good redundancy.