Supermicro also sells 4 nodes in a 2U, with 24 2.5" drives. You get 6 drives per node, which is 50% more disk per node. The prices seem to be pretty good.
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:17 PM, tsuna <tsuna...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Patrick Angeles <patr...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > Did you mean 2 nodes in 2U? > > No, I meant 2 nodes in 1U. > > > Dell, HP and SuperMicro all have models that fit the bill. If you really > did > > mean 2 nodes in 1U you're looking at either 2.5" drives or < 4 spindles > per > > node, neither of which is ideal for Hadoop/HBase in terms of !/$ (bang > per > > buck). > > Yeah those particular models have room for 4 x 3.5" disks (so 2 per > node). Given how much they cost, they still give you a pretty good > !/$. Plus, you can always mod them a little bit to fit more disks in > the system (this, however, is left as an exercise for the reader). > > There are other vendors who sell cheap 2-in-1U servers, some may offer > more 3.5" disk slots out of the box. Otherwise you can always do like > Google and build your own. You just need a bunch of dudes who are > passionate about that stuff :) > > -- > Benoit "tsuna" Sigoure > Software Engineer @ www.StumbleUpon.com >
