We built a vault of 20 Supermicro servers and placed it into production, and at the same time we placed a standard Storage Pod vault into production. Here we would observe the server’s performance and test its compatibility with our operational architecture. The process progressed and one server, a 60-drive Supermicro server, was selected to move on to the next stage, production performance testing. The testing was done over a period of about a year using the criteria noted earlier. We then proceeded to test several different storage servers from the list and elsewhere. Also in that post, we compiled a list of storage servers on the market at the time which were similar to our Storage Pod design. In that post we mused about the build/buy decision and stated the criteria we needed to consider if we were going to buy storage servers from someone else: cost, ease of maintenance, the use of commodity parts, ability to scale production, and so on. In September of 2019, we wrote a blog post to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of open sourcing our Storage Pod design. That changed about 6 months ago and we haven’t built or deployed a Storage Pod since that time. We had started using Dell servers in our Amsterdam data center, although we were still building and deploying the version 6.X storage pods in our US data centers. I suppose we could have written blog posts about those improvements, a Storage Pod 6.X post or 2 or 3, but somehow that felt a bit hollow.Ībout 18 months ago, we talked about The Next Backblaze Storage Pod. We’ve added more memory, upgraded the CPU, and of course deployed larger disks. Yes, we have improved that system since then, several times. It has been over 6 years since we released Storage Pod 6.0. The Storage Pod Story: Innovation to Commodity This article was written on Octoby Andy Klein, principal storage cloud evangelist, Backblaze Inc.
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