Finally, the solution to storing my massive amount of.. um.. data (yeah, that's the ticket)

I found this via BoingBoing - A company specializing in cloud storage couldn't find a cheap enough solution so they costed out the parts themselves and aside from the custom cases the rest is built with off-the-shelf hardware.

The best part? They shared their solution with us.

The price works out to $120 per 1.5TB internal drive, so it seems to be pretty accurate to be able to build this server for the price they say it costs.

DO WANT.


http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01...cloud-storage/


(rick's pro tip: wait for 1.5TB internals to get down to $100 on a sale in the near future and you'll get this project completed for less than $7k)