Comments on: Are You Ready for Open-Source Hardware? http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/ Fri, 24 May 2013 04:46:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tim http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223064 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:48:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223064 so, to turn this into a real (i.e. collaborative) open-source hardware project, we have recently launched

http://openstoragepod.org

where we are discussing the backblaze design and trying to further evolve it.

]]> By: Fallout of the Backblaze Storage Pod post | Backblaze Blog http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223063 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:16:21 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223063 [...] Malik wrote about it at GigaOm, as did Robin Harris at StorageMojo, and Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing. Soon after, CrunchGear, [...]

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]]> By: Links 02/09/2009: RHEL 5.4 Released; Skype Buyout Can Help Free Software | Boycott Novell http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223060 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:25:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223060 [...] Are You Ready for Open-Source Hardware? According to the Chaos Theory, in a giant system that has lots of interconnections, even the smallest action can have a massive impact. It’s more simply described by the butterfly effect. This theory has taken its toll on the software business, thanks to the rise of open-source software platforms. Today, I learned about a move made by Backblaze, a small San Francisco-based online back-up service that can cause a similar disruption in the storage industry. [...]

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-09 22:34:29 UTC - Identi.ca http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223059 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:34:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223059 [...] Open-Source #Hardware is Materialising http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/ [...]

]]> By: Devin Knighton http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223058 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:53:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223058 Actually, unlimited online backup for $4.95 a month isn’t new. Mozy has been providing unlimited online backup since 2006 to over 1 million customers and protects over 15 petabytes.

Devin Knighton
Mozy Public Relations
Decho Corp.
devink@decho.com
http://www.mozy.com

]]> By: Roger Weeks http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223057 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:04:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223057 I wonder what the power and cooling requirements for these shelves are. How “green” are they? I don’t see how you’d replace a defective drive without taking a whole shelf offline, either.

]]> By: JM http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223056 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:30:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223056 I’ve read this article as well as their blog and had a few questions:

* Even with 6 fans, I wonder how much heat does each box generate and whether 6 fans is enough to cool the system.
* From the vimeo video as well as the flickr snapshots, I noticed that the disks are very close to one another. I wonder how easy maintenance is for these types of setup. I also didn’t noticed a way for a way for the drives to be ejected easily (in case of drive failure).

Great article and product / idea though. I’d be very interested to learn more how they handle outages (if any)

]]> By: alka http://gigaom.com/2009/09/01/open-source-hardware/#comment-223055 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:38:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/?p=67161#comment-223055 ever heard of oracle runnin on SATA? or any of those big enterprise apps running on SATA? Can you use blackblaze over san?

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