untopposing everything. >> > Since the OP believes that their requirement is 1TB per node... a single >> > 2TB would be the best choice. It allows for additional space and you >> really >> > shouldn't be too worried about disk i/o being your bottleneck. >>
>> The original poster also seemed somewhat interested in disk bandwidth. >> >> That is facilitated by having more than on disk in the box. >> >> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com >> >wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Shrinivas Joshi <jshrini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks much to all who shared their inputs. This really helps. It would be > nice to have a wiki page collecting all this good information. I will check > with that. We are definitely going with large capacity disks (>= 1TB). > > -Shrinivas > I think the guidelines would be good to capture, but that seems like it'd be more of a footnote or subsection to a larger hardware notes/specs/suggestions page with some guides for picking processors, memory, et al(maybe also noting what flavors of OSes are known to have particular upside/downsides). It was noted no less than 3 times in the thread this is a very fluid target and completely reasonable choices today (e.g. X TB sata drives) might be viewed as silly in a year or 6 months. that's my personal opinion, anyway. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.
