So: An older HP ProLiant server and 32 of the cheapest ebay USB Drives, all running in RAID0. I'm going to build the least reliable Object Storage money can buy (without resorting to floppy disks). I'm gonna call it S4 (Scrappy Simple Storage Service). Do you have a better name? Let me know!
Is the S5 project already planning for 128 drives, so when running ZFS you can have a 1:1 bit-to-drive ratio? 🤣
I mean, I guess "scrappy" is better than "shitty"? 😆
Ich wollte das "...but why?" Meme posten, dann bin ich draufgekommen dass das eigentlich recht cool ist. Mit Antworten wie "because I can" und "wer weiß wohin es hinführen kann". Also Hacker Mentalität. Passt gut.
too bad you can't buy some 2nd hand drives used for EBS volumes, that'd really add to the pile here. 😆
RAID0 means when 1 flash drive is kaputt, your data is gone
Eons ago a friend and I took 5 of the 32MB (MB!!!) usb drives that Red Hat would give out as training swag and plugged them in to a 5 port USB hub. We configured it with RAID 5 and wrote a script to read/write the drives. They started failing within a few hours.
instead of five 9s, call it an 8, a 7, and a 5
simply slow (un)stable service - unS3 SlothFS - SFS Seriously Slow S3 Service - S3(ish)
JBOU 😂
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1wOn the one hand, Bravo! On the other hand, I bought a very inexpensive Synology DiskStation (which is basically just a pair of 3.5” disk bays in a box with a power button and an ethernet port), plugged a couple of BIG spinning disks in there for RAID, and never looked back. It actually runs a little OS that can run Node, which makes for a great little ecosystem of servers it can run as your own little private storage cloud In my basement. The time I saved NOT managing it has more than paid for the hardware in the first year.