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LinuxDevices: Linux Powers Low-Cost Petabyte-Level Storage

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“Capricorn Technologies says it has completed delivery of more
than a petabyte of storage to the Internet Archive, a non-profit
organization based in San Francisco that creates periodic snapshots
of the Internet. Capricorn’s PetaBox products are based on Via
mini-ITX boards running Debian or Fedora Linux, and deliver the
lowest cost-per-GB and cost-of-ownership available, the company
claims.

“Capricorn started as a project within the Internet Archive (IA)
to develop inexpensive storage devices based on Linux and commodity
PC components…”

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