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Would be relevant for folks like Backblaze and the Internet Archive, where you write once, read many, but rarely delete. 60 72TB drives gets you 4.3PB per chassis/pod, and assuming 10 pods to a rack, 40PB racks. For comparison, 3 years ago, the Internet Archive had about 50PB of data archived and 120PB of raw disk capacity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18118556



And as "rarely" approaches zero ( think legal hold-type "you may surely not delete" ) there is a cost-saving in warm-ish storage in terms of replication and maintenance. Ensuring that your Tape archive is good is a pain unless you have huge tape robots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiNWOhl00Ao


Note he speculated about a 5.25" form factor drive. You're not going to fit 60 of those in something Backblaze-pod sized.


Looks like 60 5.25" drives from their website?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bl...

Edit: My mistake! I was confusing 5.25 form factor with 3.5 :/ much shame.


Those are 3.5"




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