You can pick up some HP Micro servers for dirt cheap. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-4237917-4248009.html
I haven't tried setting them up yet (no room in the current domicile) but I suspect it'd be great for development. Jeremiah Peschka Microsoft SQL Server MVP MCITP: Database Developer, DBA On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Ryan Zezeski <rzeze...@gmail.com> wrote: > At my current job I've had the luxury of 4 dell poweredge servers (CentOS, > 128GB, 1-2TB disk, 16-core). > > However, I've been seriously considering either buying some old 1Us and > building my own rack in the basement OR 3 used mac mini's from eBay (I'm > single so I can do stuff like this). The nice thing about mini's is they > travel...plus they're so darn cute. The nice thing about an actual rack is > it is (probably?) closer to real production deployments. > > I'm also tempted to use older hardware just b/c if you can make it more > efficient there then the shinier stuff _should_ automatically get a boost. > Although I supposed stuff like NUMA vs. SMP could bite you? I'm curious to > hear what others think. > > Mark, are you allowed to share any statistics related to the setups of > actual production users? > > -Ryan > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@basho.com> wrote: > >> I was going to make this part of today's Recap, but upon further >> thinking I concluded that it might deserve its own thread... >> >> @wmacgyver, @russelldb, and some others exchanged a few messages on >> Twitter yesterday about what dev setup they are using for their >> respective Riak work. >> >> wmacgyver's response was: "3 macmini server 2.66ghz with 8gb, raid 1 >> 500gb=your own ec2 7.5gb node with 500gb ebs. Every dev has a set." >> [1] >> >> Anyone else care to share their setup? Or have any questions about >> what your dev setup should look like? >> >> Mark >> >> 1 - http://twitter.com/wmacgyver/statuses/52117875980386304 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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