Linuxdevices has written a piece on Capricorn Technologies sale of over 1 Petrabyte of storage to The Internet Archive:
Capricorn Technologies says it has completed delivery of more than a petabyte of storage to the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco that creates periodic snapshots of the Internet. Capricorn’s PetaBox products are based on Via mini-ITX boards running Debian or Fedora Linux, and deliver the lowest cost-per-GB and cost-of-ownership available, the company claims.
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The IA is an online digital library with very large collections of audio, video, texts, web sites, and software. For example, it claims to host footage of more than 20,000 live concerts, and snapshots of the Internet dating back to 1996, accessible through the well-known Wayback Machine, which currently hosts over 40 billion web pages.
The IA’s PetaBox installation comprises about 16 racks housing 600 systems with 2,500 spinning drives, for a total capacity of roughly 1.5 petabytes. Despite its large size, the IA’s PetaBox installation draws only about 50kW of power, Saikley says, and is maintained by one full- and one half-time person who spend a disproportionate amount of time working on older systems. “We’ve improved reliability considerably,” Saikley claims.
The IA systems boot Debian or Fedora Linux from a central PXE boot server, and are remotely monitored using nagios. “The beauty of nagios is that it is so readily extensible,” says Saikley. “If the register exists on the board, nagios can figure out how to read it. We typically provide hard disk temperatures, cpu temperatures, ping response, capacity utilization, that sort of thing.”
The PetaBox can also be managed by Linux cluster management software, according to Saikley.
I have only one word for this: Sweet…..
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