Awesome Thread

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The mention of Frank Zappa on the label makes me want that beer even more. I remember seeing a vid of them brewing that and thinking 'DO WANT!!' but I'm sure it's freaking expensive.
 
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From the man that brought you the OS Xbox Pro and the Cinematograph HD comes... a cockpit canopy filled with hard drives? Not quite. Meet the Black Dwarf, a custom network-attached-storage device from the mind of video editor Will Urbina, packing 16TB of RAID 5 magnetic media and a 1.66GHz Atom N270 CPU into a completely hand-built Lexan, aluminum and steel enclosure. Urbina says the Dwarf writes at 88MB per second and reads at a fantastic 266MB per second, making the shuttlecraft-shaped 12.7TB array nearly as speedy as an SSD but with massive capacity and some redundancy to boot. As usual, the DIY guru shot a professional time-lapse video of his entire build process, and this one's not to be missed -- it showcases some pretty spiffy camerawork as well as the man's welding skills.

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Wow.
Me wants.
 
I don't want the "Black Dwarf", I want the skills to build it...
 
I wonder how hot those drives get stacked up against each other like that.

yeah i thought about that too. especially because they are in a sealed off compartment so the fan in the back doesn't do anything to help that -.-

If you look at the 2nd video around 6:13 you will see that the angled back plate has about a 1/2-3/4 inch gap across the top so the fan draws air up through the bottom between the disks through that gap and out the back. also in the same video at 6:15 you can see there is another lower hole for cables which will also allow air to be drawn through. Also Google did a study which said:
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We can conclude that at moderate temperature* ranges it is likely that there are other effects which affect failure rates much more strongly than temperatures do.

Judging by the graph on page 6 i am gonna say they are saying moderate temps == 95 - 113
 
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woah, who would've thought low temperatures affect harddrives that badly in short term o_O nice find, that!
 
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This is totally on my "Must buy" list:

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Two girls kissing...
It's nice, but I would hardly call it "Awesome". :dunno:
 
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