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BackBlaze, an online backup company, posted a great blog article a while back about building their custom 67TB servers for just under $8,000. They even include all the how to, and a link to the custom case manufacturer if you wanted to do it yourself: <a href="http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...</a>

What is so interesting about buying up tonnes of hard disks and connecting them?

Closer to the source: <a href="http://basanovich.livejournal.com/163813.html" rel="nofollow">http://basanovich.livejournal.com/163813.html</a><p>With more photos and crude English explaination from the author. Reposted by a friend, as the original author doesn't disclose himself.<p>This piece of news made a couple of hops before it got out to English-speaking internets.

Unusual, but not hard. 1 USB port, tree of 12 hubs, pile of 70 1TB drives. He's looking for accessible capacity, not speed.

I'd like to wait for a year to see that the design does not go up in flames before I applaud it.

Now if only I could build a CM-5 clone for my home.

how soon can we expect this capacity to fit in a usb stick?

Hope he's using a decent modern filesystem (e.g. zfs)

In Russia, Home Computer builds Hacker.