Many of you probably know that Facebook launched the Open Compute project. They custom designed their own data center and servers to take advantage of their very particular use case. After that, they did something amazing and open sourced the results. It’s an ambitious project, for an ambitious company. Few companies out there have to deal with the scale of data and uptime requirements they have. Only Google, Microsoft and Amazon come to mind. Zuckerberg is know for saying “we have any downtime and we’re dead.” Anandtech has launched into the first ever comprehensive review of the Open Compute hardware and it’s a fascinating read. You can check out the full scale review of the Facebook hardware here. While at Bulldog Data, we’re not huge fans of custom creating our own hardware, when their is a reasonably priced machine with a tremendous feature set, we have certainly found reasons to built our own boxes, such as for NAS for scale out filesystems. Each custom is unique.
Open Compute Servers Tested
