Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C...
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:33PM
(#36191259)
It's not silly because it doesn't exist. It's silly because it weighs a hundred pounds and makes design trade offs to achieve a level of density you probably don't even care about if you only need one of them. The people who want that thing are the people who are going to fill a rack with them or more instead of several times that many racks with something else.
In practice if you need ~24 drives you get a couple of 2U array containers that each hold 12 drives and then buy a 2U server or two to plug them into and don't care at all that you used 8U for 24 drives instead of 4U for 72 because your 42U rack still has 34U to spare.
3TB/day is about a third of what you can serve out of any run of the mill PC with a gigabit ethernet connection. There are 22TB drives and individual servers with 24 drive bays, which exceeds 500TB. So you could do this with one machine connected to a gigabit fiber connection, and the machine would cost approximately what they're paying monthly (almost all of that for the drives).
In practice a 24-bay chassis is silly and you might use a separate storage array etc., but that's just details.
> Plus, even if you deal with the storage itself, how do you deal with serving the traffic globally?
At 3TB/day you're not Netflix. Just serve it directly from your own server.