[ale] ATL Colocation and file server suggestions

Ed Cashin ecashin at noserose.net
Mon Jan 19 12:36:24 EST 2009


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
> To your second question...
>
> You can buy a Supermicro server chassis and a motherboard that has four
> or more SATA ports on it.  Use an ATA/CF adapter just to hold your
> /boot, stick in four 1.5TB SATA drives, configure as RAID5 on the mobo
> or using kernel RAID, and you're off to the races.  You might scrimp on
> CPU in favor of RAM...almost all of it will be going to disk cache once
> the thing's been in service for a while.

My employer, Coraid, sells pre-made boxes like that, which
you can use via the ATA over Ethernet network protocol.  There's
a Linux AoE initiator in recent kernels and a more advanced
version on the Coraid website.  (I just haven't had time to merge
the changes---the linux-next stuff kind of threw me for a loop!)

-- 
  Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net>


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