I would start with something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/2U-24-bay-2-5-Supermicro-Server-X8DTH-iF-2x-Xeon-Quad-Core-32GB-RAM-SAS2-216EL1-/222132081393?hash=item33b81a92f1:g:UzYAAOSwR5dXSQVw
With it being 2U you can then pop out the motherboard and go with anything more modern you wanted in terms of the motherboard/cpu/ram. $1200 all in would certainly get you a nice system with that as the base. John On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Andy Colson <a...@squeakycode.net> wrote: > Hi all. > > I have access to quite a few laptop HD's (10 to 15 of them at least), and > thought that might make a neat test box that might have some good IO speed. > > Needs to be cheap though, so linux with software raid, rack mount > preferred but not required. > > Anyone have any experience with anything like that? $2K might be > possible, painful, but possible. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks for your time, > > -Andy > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
