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		vertex-four on Oct 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud st... https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/ seems to suggest their boot drive is SATA (google "WD5000LPVX"), where are you getting the idea that they're PATA?

justinsb on Oct 26, 2014 [–]

Looks like they were PATA for version 1 (search for 'PATA').

My guess is that they wanted to keep the SATA ports for their storage, and the motherboard had a PATA port available.

It may also have been non-trivial to boot from JFS, which is probably why they wanted a separate disk.

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