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		virtuallynathan on March 15, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox’s Exodus from the Amazon Cloud It looks like the servers they make use of are purchasable, part of the Dell DSS series - the DSS7000: http://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/dss%207000_dss%2075... 90x 3.5in disks, 2x compute nodes with 2x E5-2600v3 CPUs.

jamwt on March 15, 2016 [–]

We actually use several different servers from different vendors, and some of them are more customized than others.

virtuallynathan on March 15, 2016 | [–]

Ah, yes I spot the 78 bay Quanta one: http://www.qct.io/Product/Storage/Storage-Server/4U/New-Quan...

Can't identify the 3rd one yet...

EDIT: Found it... HPE Cloudline CL5200, 80 drive bays. http://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/hpe-c...

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