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The Internet Archive Petabox Storage System

57 points| Mayeu | 10 years ago |archive.org

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toomuchtodo|10 years ago

Curious why the archive isn't using Backblaze's open storage pod design.

Sanddancer|10 years ago

Backblaze's design, by their own admission, is good if you have low IO usage. Internet Archive has a much different usage set, where the instantaneous IO needs are higher, and thus, the backblaze design would be way too high latency for them. Things like caching and ECC are much more useful when you have the hot spots that Internet Archive tends to have.

jacquesm|10 years ago

The 14 fold increase in capacity in one generation is incredible. There is still quite a revolution going on in storage. Any bets on whether the next generation will still contain spinning media?

toomuchtodo|10 years ago

I don't believe spinning disk is long for this world. 6TB SSD drives are already out, the price just needs to be driven down. Much lower power consumption at idle is a side benefit.

0x006A|10 years ago

rather dated by now, would be interesting to see how it evolved lately.

feld|10 years ago

Wait, they used reiserfs? They wanted to keep their data, right? yow