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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by pmlnr on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:30AM (#19420822)
There are Supermicro chassis' out there with 106x14TB drives in 4u, super deep racks.

1PB is nothing today.

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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by idlewords on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:12AM (#19428019)
Building such a storage behemoth is not the challenging part. Filling it with data, backing it up, and keeping the RAID rebuild time under load on such monster drives below the average drive failure time is the challenging part.
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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by crest on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:01AM (#19430334)
At that scale it makes sense to start thinking about alternatives to RAID e.g. an object storage with erasure coding should work well for a code base already using the S3 API. In theory even minio should be enough, but I never had enough spare hardware to perform a load test of that scale.
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