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Re: Rasberry pi - high density

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Sat May 9 14:58:02 2015

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From: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 14:55:51 -0400
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On May 9, 2015 at 00:24 charles@thefnf.org (charles@thefnf.org) wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > So I just crunched the numbers. How many pies could I cram in a rack?

For another list I just estimated how many M.2 SSD modules one could
cram into a 3.5" disk case. Around 40 w/ some room to spare (assuming
heat and connection routing aren't problems), at 500GB/each that's
20TB in a standard 3.5" case.

It's getting weird out there.

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