On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Greg Lindahl wrote: > If you only rarely re-read the primary data, I'd think a stack of SATA > drives in a cabinet would probably do the trick. Two sets, one
It is very cheap to do 32 TByte raw storage with SATA (2 TByte RE3 from WD) in 3 rack units using off-shelf Supermicro chassis with zfs (raidz2), e.g. with FreeNAS 0.7 or OpenSolaris. Remote synchronization is easy with rsync or unionfs. As far as I can see things become considerably more expensive with larger drive numbers and higher drive densities, unless one uses a cluster FS approach. > off-site. And that will be cheaper than S3; you pay only the disk > hardware cost plus a very modest amount of labor. You don't have to > pay for a server to which all the disks can be simultaneously plugged > into. Amazon is providing too much. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
