If you can swing 2u chassis and 2.5" drives instead, you can trivially get between 15 and 24 drives across the front and rear of a beautiful hot-swap chassis. There are numerous makes and models available from custom builds up/down through used on ebay. Worth a peek.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Nick Fisk <n...@fisk.me.uk> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Has anyone seen or heard about any Xeon-D based barebones servers more > suited for Ceph use. We are looking to roll out a 2nd cluster and would > really like something based on these boards that is barebones and dense. > There is a lot of fat in most servers that we just don’t need and would > love a way to operate lean and mean. > > > > Ideal for us, would be > > > > 1U > > 12-14 3.5” disks > > Xeon-D 1540 (Onboard 10G-T) > > Single PSU > > Minimal case/chassis design > > Some sort of separate fan module with large fans that cools multiple U’s > > > > We are currently running the Supermicro Fat Twin’s (4 trays of 14xdisks), > but we would really like something we can grow 1U at a time and also power > individually. The Dual Xeon MB is also a un-needed cost. > > > > We are even potentially considering getting some 1U sheet metal made with > mounting holes for MB and 12 disks, but for our required cluster size its > probably a bit of an excessive option at the moment. Although it would be > nice to put our 3D printer to good use and make some brackets of some sort > J > > > > Anyway, if anyone knows about anything coming out in the near future, I > would love to hear about it. > > > > Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > >
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