Re: Hardware support
Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My work (yes, Im now employed) is looking at deploying servers to client sites. They arent so much servers as appliances. The boxes serve a distinct function, and not much else. Our hardware needs: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware support
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My work (yes, Im now employed) is looking at deploying servers to client sites. They arent so much servers as appliances. The boxes serve a distinct function, and not much else. Our hardware needs: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8. I'm partial to our solutions. Here's a 2U with 12 bays that takes 750GB SATA: http://www.ixsystems.com/storageNAS.php* *Dan, I'm sure we sell the system as a stand-alone solution, without the management software. -matt * * -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop! http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101 ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware support
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:40:36PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My work (yes, Im now employed) is looking at deploying servers to client sites. They arent so much servers as appliances. The boxes serve a distinct function, and not much else. Our hardware needs: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8. HP DL320s, 2U, can have 12 SAS or SATA drives. 4.20TB gross or 10.5TB gross. -- Regards, Ulf. - Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware support
On Sunday 13 May 2007 04:10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration 1U or 2U case good reputation Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not sure you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at least 16 data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The most I've ever seen in a 2U case is 8. Hitachi sell 1Tb disks now. (Or at least they advertise them ;) http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/DF2EF568E18716F5862572C20067A757/$file/Ultrastar_A7K1000_final_DS.pdf -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpGOY6zrJNSN.pgp Description: PGP signature
