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Commented on Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867
anybody know where i can get one of those backplanes?...
Commented on The new Apple ads
wow, these are awful. somebody needs to tell apple's marketing team that apple is gaining a stigma as being for snobby douchebags, and that the ads need to combat that, not reinforce it....
Commented on Hyoutan speakers
a hyoutan is no more a sort of cucumber than a pumpkin is a sort of cucumber...
Commented on Laptop Lifts
or you could just buy a laptop that isn't a mac, and actually is designed to allow some airflow around the bottom....
Commented on Weird ice balls in London?
is it bad that i clicked through to this story from my RSS reader just so i could see all the comments from people who didn't get the joke?...
Commented on Cassette Wallets
$43 to crack an old cassette in half and glue in a zipper? really?...
Commented on Retro electro magnetic spectrum chart is rainbow science geek porn
XKCDs take on the subject there's an interesting thread over at reddit. apparently this is a photograph of a poster that hung over XKCDs bed as a child. it got him interested in science, and directly inspired the comic you...
Commented on Experiment: Dissolving starch packing peanuts
a swimming pool with a thick layer of foam peanuts (that aren't water soluble) sounds like a ton of fun. now if only i had a swimming pool and a large quanitity of foam to try it with....
Commented on Naughty speed camera prank
in my town, the speed cameras are not freestanding things, but are housed in vehicles that drive around and park inconspicuosly, then snap photos of license plates. i knew a guy who claimed to have reproduced the license plate from...
Commented on Reporting from Banff for BoingBoing
mt rundle is the view from my hot tub :) yes, i know, i'm a lucky bastard....
Commented on What kind of animal is on this rubber ball?
1. is obviously a snake, 2. is a guy giving a thumbs up, 3. is a musk-ox, 4. is a gorilla....
Commented on Consumers hate Linux. Or perhaps they just hate SUSE.
the wind isn't in any major retailers in the states already? staples canada sells it. (or does staples not count as a major retailer?)...
Commented on Nintendo announces DS Lite successor with built-in camera, the DSi (Off-the-cuff verdict: a worthless upgrade)
engadget says 3 megapixel camera on the outside, not 0.3....
Commented on Air Canada shaves fuel costs by eliminating life-jackets
@fennylaise and anybody else saying westjet is better: have you ever seen a lifejacket on a westjet plane? the seat card says to use your cushion for flotation....
Commented on How to deal with wall-mounted TV cables as a renter
if you don't want to damage the wall, how did you get that wall mount bolted in there in the first place?...
Commented on Craftsman's $8600 everything toolkit
who would want 1400 craftsman tools?...
Commented on WWW domain country codes of the world
it would have been much cooler if the size of the text was determined by how many addresses were registered to that tld, rather than just the population....
Commented on Graphic graphic: UK Office of Govt Commerce's new logo
as predicted by dinosaur comics: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001057.html?...
Commented on Clay Shirky on Colbert
canadian viewers - watch the clip on TCN's website here: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip43107...
Commented on Cork case for iPhone
it amuses me that your four year old daughter knows it's an "iphone" not a phone....
Commented on Photo of extension cord in swimming pool
as explained on reddit, the water will short the ground and live wires tripping the gfi breaker, provided their house is wired to code....
Commented on Mike Huckabee congratulates Canada on its "national igloo"
i remember after this first aired, there was an interview with rick about the show. he was saying how much he loved doing it, but getting the reaction from huckabee almost made him feel bad because huckabee was such a...
Commented on Teacher mistakes Guns N Roses PA karaoke for death-threat, calls in the heat
teenagers can't take custodial jobs after school hours? true story: i read this in my rss reader right below an onion article, and clicked through expecting to get to the onion. this is just too good to be true....

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kaiza commented on Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867
@Cory - what's funny about Day Vexx's post? Following his post I've just put the finishing touches on my personal time machine warp gate. See you in the next quadrant!...
dculberson commented on Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867
Besides which, everyone knows that AT-AT nacelles can't be used in the OCP ED-209 configuration! They end up too degaussed....
seanc0x0 commented on Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867
That looks a lot like a DIY version of our DDN (DataDirect Networks) box at work, minus the redundancy, fiber channel, and a LOT of the cost. For what it's worth, heat is not a problem in the DDN, even though it's got 60 drives per drawer (4U of rackspace)....
bunedoggle commented on Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867
This is pretty cool. But it's no enterprise class storage by any means. One thing that immediately comes to mind is hot swapping drives. That's key to uptime. Commercial systems give you redundant hot swappable power supplies as well. Not to mention dual port drives with redundant controllers to keep the drives available if a controller fails. I have a home built raid system and I've been working in the raid storage industry since 1999. There's a big difference between this and enterprise storage, whether those differences are worth the premiums charged is debatable....
George William Herbert commented on Open design for a 67 TB array for $7867
If your operations costs (people fixing boxes going down) are typical, and cost for unit downtime is typical, this box is not a good solution. Actually redundant power supplies, hot swap, etc. all matter. Enough cooling air flow space around the drives matters (there's a reason that the commercial top-access 4U disk boxes tend to have 42 drives not 45 - the additional space by leaving one row out gives much better airflow). I salute what they accomplished, but they're going to be paying people a lot to maintain them going forwards....

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