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Re:The Next Backblaze Storage Pod by notyourday on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:41PM (#27622053)
That's not the backblaze design. The backblaze design is that the drives are individually hot-swappable without a tray. 60 commodity SATA drives that can be removed and serviced individually while a 4U server continues to operate normally is pretty amazing.
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Re:The Next Backblaze Storage Pod by walrus01 on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:00PM (#27632439)
that's what I said, the backblaze design is:

> things that were designed with vertical hard drives dropped down from a top-opening lid to achieve even higher density.

the backblaze storage pod system and some 3rd party derived designs have the SATA/power ports on PCBs facing upwards, mounted at bottom interior of rack chassis, and 3.5" HDDs mounted vertically down into the system.

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