Backblaze is a cloud backup service that needs cheap storage. Lots of it. They say a petabyte worth of raw drives runs under $100,000, but buying that much storage in products from major vendors easily costs over $1,000,000. So they built their own.
The result is a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at [...]
Posted November 5, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: Backblaze, disk drives, mass storage, storage, storage capacity. Be the first one.
It was a tech story so apparently humorous that the popular media felt compelled to cover it: carrier pigeons delivered 4GBs of data faster than an ADSL line. The BBC story’s subtitle read “broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no [...]
Posted September 21, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: adsl, bandwidth, broadband, dsl, growth, IP over Avian Carrier, network speeds, pigeonrace2009, pigeons, storage capacity, upload speeds. Be the first one.
