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rbanffy on Oct 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 135 Terabytes for $12,000

Well... You can make all 46 drives into a zpool with raid-z and boot FreeBSD or *Solaris from it.

BTW, I can't see the vibration sleeves around the disks on the pictures. Vibration must be a problem when you pack so much rotating media in such a limited space.

cbs on Oct 11, 2011 | [–]

Backblaze's blog talks about the vibration problem and their solution.

moe on Oct 11, 2011 | | [–]

Just a datapoint, yes, vibration is a real issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

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