Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

From: Adam Brusselback Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend It's really amazing how much solid state drives transferred the database bottleneck away from disk. Adam – so very true. We used to spend ungodly amounts of time/money/effo

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

Agreed with Joshua, a single ssd will have way more performance than all 15 of those for random io for sure, and probably be very close on sequential. That said, a raid controller able to handle all 15 drives (or multiple that handle a subset of the drives) is likely to be more expensive than a sin

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 06/18/2016 11:52 AM, Andy Colson wrote: On 06/17/2016 04:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/17/2016 2:33 PM, John W Higgins wrote: 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

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 06/17/2016 04:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 6/17/2016 2:33 PM, John W Higgins wrote: 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 motherb

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 06/17/2016 09:23 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Andy Colson mailto: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.

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 06/17/2016 04:33 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: On 18/06/16 08:36, Andy Colson 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

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 18/06/16 14:23, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Andy Colson > 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

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Andy Colson 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 > preferr

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 6/17/2016 2:33 PM, John W Higgins wrote: 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 wan

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

On 18/06/16 08:36, Andy Colson 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.

Re: [GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

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

[GENERAL] OT hardware recommend

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 anythi