anyone ever seen this before?

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a fellow over-the-hill geek at the office sent me this earlier this week:

 

"67 terabytes, under 8 grand"

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

 

when i saw this, a few things in how it is/was architected that made me think "hmm, the unraid crowd might have done this differently".

 

despite the fact that i am not 100% sure about the custom case (why use punch-out fan orifices when they could have used a better design for finger guards?), it is still impressive.

 

[BRiT]

Yes, we've seen and discussed this already.