On 05/09/11 8:10 AM, Jason wrote:
> The only thing that confuses me about chassis like these is I always miss
> something that I needed to order to complete the machine. They all come with
> different things. In the chassis you mention. I would obviously need to still
> need to buy a mobo, proce
Hi John,
> you might look at these chassis, which are, IMHO, better engineered than
> that backblaze thing
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E16-R1400U.cfm
>
> this supports 36 SAS/SATA drives in a 4U (24 in front, 12 in back) and
> has SAS2 backplane multiplexers so you
On Sunday, May 08, 2011 04:23:23 PM John R Pierce wrote:
> note that SAS supports N:M multiplexing where
> any one of the N controller channels can address any of the M
> devices plain SATA only supports 1:M simple expanders
Hmm, that explains how SAS can effectively replace fibre channel a
On 05/08/11 1:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 05/08/11 1:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> If you can use less drives, this would be more cost effective (time building&
>> time fixing)
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038 [400$]
>
> multiple reports online indicate th
On 05/08/11 1:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> If you can use less drives, this would be more cost effective (time building&
> time fixing)
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038 [400$]
multiple reports online indicate that norco case is very flimsy and
poorly made.
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>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: John R Pierce
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> On 05/08/11 12:06 PM, Jason wrote:
> > Rudy,
> >
> >
> > Do you h
On 05/08/11 12:06 PM, Jason wrote:
> Rudy,
>
>
> Do you have a recommendation of a motherboard?
>
> I am still reading the rest of your post. Thanks!
most any server board that supports dual intel xeon 5500/5600 will let
you pretty easily add 24GB per CPU socket while using relatively
affordable
Thanks Rudi, that helps as you have good luck with all of them. I see they have
some boards that go up to 192gb (but not DDR3), but some do 144gb as well. I
just need to find out if the POD supports extended ATX and I see others have
just used regular ATX boards.
--
Jason
On Sunday, May 8, 20
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jason wrote:
> Rudy,
>
>
> Do you have a recommendation of a motherboard?
>
>
Well, choose one here:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/matrix/
I don't have specific recommendations but we've had great success with all
our SuperMicro servers, both with
Hi Jason,
> > http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how
> -to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://cleanenergy.harvard.edu/index.php?ira=Jabba&tipoConteni
> do=sidebar&sidebar=science
>
> Distrubing, I was on the same pages a few hours ago.
>
The Internet
Rudy,
Do you have a recommendation of a motherboard?
I am still reading the rest of your post. Thanks!
-Jason
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Jason
On Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jason wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am about to embark on a project that d
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Jason wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am about to embark on a project that deals with allowing information
> archival, over time and seeing change over time as well. I can explain it a
> lot better, but I would certainly talk your ear off. I really don't have a
> lot of mon
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason
> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 14:04
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] Building a Back Blaze style POD
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am about to embark on a project that deals with allowing
> information archival, over ti
Hi All,
I am about to embark on a project that deals with allowing information
archival, over time and seeing change over time as well. I can explain it a lot
better, but I would certainly talk your ear off. I really don't have a lot of
money to throw at the initial concept, but I have some. Th
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