Re: [Openstack] Disk Recommendation - OpenStack Swift

2013-01-29 Thread Koert van der Veer
On 01/29/2013 02:11 AM, John van Ommen wrote: I am looking at hardware from Dell and HP, and I've found that the disks they offer are very expensive. For instance, HP's 2TB disk has a MSRP of over $500, while you can get a Western Digital 2TB 'Red' disk for $127. Don't spend too much money on

Re: [Openstack] Disk Recommendation - OpenStack Swift

2013-01-29 Thread Chuck Thier
Hi John, It would be difficult to recommend a specific drive, because things change so often. New drives are being introduced all the time. Manufacturers buy their competition and cancel their awesome products. So the short answer is that you really need to test the drives out in your

Re: [Openstack] Disk Recommendation - OpenStack Swift

2013-01-29 Thread Jan Drake
A presentation at the first openstack design summit was given in which a vendor did a couple of petabyte swift implementations. In that presentation, they explained that in one implementation they used enterprise drives and another desktop drives. Enterprise drive failures were higher due to

Re: [Openstack] Disk Recommendation - OpenStack Swift

2013-01-29 Thread Kuo Hugo
There's a most important point. A better monitor/notification method of disks . 2013/1/30 Jan Drake jan_dr...@hotmail.com A presentation at the first openstack design summit was given in which a vendor did a couple of petabyte swift implementations. In that presentation, they explained

[Openstack] Disk Recommendation - OpenStack Swift

2013-01-28 Thread John van Ommen
Does anyone on the list have a disk they'd recommend for OpenStack swift? I am looking at hardware from Dell and HP, and I've found that the disks they offer are very expensive. For instance, HP's 2TB disk has a MSRP of over $500, while you can get a Western Digital 2TB 'Red' disk for $127. Is