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Re:When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Ru... by wmf on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @12:42PM (#8362459)
Do they rack it with the drives or do they rack it empty and then install the drives?
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Re:When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Ru... by aristus on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @12:50PM (#8362515)
With the drives. They really are little torpedoes.
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Re:When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Ru... by ControlledBurn on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @01:41PM (#8362869)
For the server nodes that have storage in the sled, that's true, but with the JBODs they generally rack the the sled first and then add each drive.
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