As some Sun folks pointed out
1) No redundancy at the power or networking side
2) Getting 2TB drives in a x4540 would make the numbers closer
3) Performance isn't going to be that great with their design but...they
might not need it.
On 9/2/2009 2:13 PM, Michael Shadle wrote:
Yeah I wrote them about it. I said they should sell them and even
better pair it with their offsite backup service kind of like a
massive appliance and service option.
They're not selling them but did encourage me to just make a copy of
it. It looks like the only questionable piece in it is the port
multipliers. Sil3726 if I recall. Which I think just barely is
becoming supported in the most recent snvs? That's been something I've
been wanting forever anyway.
You could also just design your own case that is optimized for a bunch
of disks, a mobo as long as it has ECC support and enough
pci/pci-x/pcie slots for the amount of cards to add. You might be able
to build one without port multipliers and just use a bunch of 8, 12,
or 16 port sata controllers.
I want to design a case that has two layers - an internal layer with
all the drives and guts and an external layer that pushes air around
it to exhaust it quietly and has additional noise dampening...
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On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Al Hopper <a...@logical-approach.com
<mailto:a...@logical-approach.com>> wrote:
Interesting blog:
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
Regards,
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