Amazing geek how-to documents a

Amazing geek how-to documents a recipe for building a sub-$6,000 terabyte storage array (or, as the how-to calls it, "Your local Library of Congress.") This is the kind of stuff that archive.org and Google do, building giant, redundant arrays out of consumer hardware whose reliability at the individual drive/computer level is quite low, but whose reliability in aggregate is stunning. It's another example of how a bottom-up, redundant approach to problem-solving is cheaper, more flexible and more reliable than centralized, top-down approaches.LinkDiscuss (via /.)