On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
> If it has to be cheap I'd take e.g. a Sun with 8x 2.5" SATA drives, > using 300 GByte WD VelociRaptors as a stripe over mirrors, or 15 > krpm SAS drives. > > Right now you can populate a SuperMicro chassis with 16x SATA 3.5" > achieving e.g. a 24 GByte dual-socket Nehalem with 32 TByte raw > storage (WD RE4; 4.8 TByte with WD VelociRaptor) for about > 6.2 kEUR sans VAT. Eugen, your setup seems very close to what I might go for. The cost seems attractive too. Do you know what kind of IOPS and MB/sec you are getting on this setup? -- Rahul _______________________________________________ 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
