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Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000 by rbanffy on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @03:06PM (#3099867)
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.

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Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000 by cbs on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @03:29PM (#3099970)
Backblaze's blog talks about the vibration problem and their solution.
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Re:135 Terabytes for $12,000 by moe on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @06:25PM (#3100644)
Just a datapoint, yes, vibration is a real issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
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