{"id":484,"date":"2011-09-14T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=484"},"modified":"2011-09-14T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T05:23:29","slug":"backblaze-storage-pods-1pb-in-34-of-a-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"Backblaze Storage Pods &#8211; 1PB in 3\/4 of a Rack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is nectar for an Infrastructure Geek like myself, being data centre-grade <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.backblaze.com\/2011\/07\/20\/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets\/\" title=\"Storage Pods\" target=\"_blank\">Storage Infrastructure<\/a>, for those of us that are interested in such things! <\/p>\n<p>Basically, 1 PetaByte (1000 TB) of redundant customised storage in 3\/4 of a Data Centre Rack, with the rest of the rack would be needed for the gigabit switch ports &#038; other networking requirements.<\/p>\n<p>I originally <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=371\" target=\"_blank\">posted of this in late July<\/a> &#038; I&#8217;m still very interested in this technology, its manufacture and implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Some quotes then are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;135 Terabytes for $7,384 (and you can build it)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newest cabinets squeeze one petabyte into three-quarters of a single cabinet for $56,696&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;one datacenter rack containing 10 pods costs Backblaze about $2,100 per month to operate, roughly divided equally into thirds for physical space rental, bandwidth, and electricity&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is nectar for an Infrastructure Geek like myself, being data centre-grade Storage Infrastructure, for those of us that are interested in such things! Basically, 1 PetaByte (1000 TB) of redundant customised storage in 3\/4 of a Data Centre Rack, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=484\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86,87],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-presence","tag-cloud","tag-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}