SanDisk and Nexenta release open-source, flash software-defined storage array

Re:SanDisk and Nexenta release open-source, flash software-d... by dsr_ on Thursday September 03, 2015 @02:30PM (#10166717)

It's not great at the bottom end, either: 64TB raw for $96,000

Get a 24 x 2.5" 2U server, 3 8 channel SAS controllers, and 24 1 TB SATA SSDs. $15k or so will buy that. 3 of them are 72TB for $45K, so less than half the price, and certainly capable of saturating any network you can afford to run. Of course, if you just need 24TB, you can just buy one of the smaller machines.

You can fit it in one 4U machine with 72 x 2.5" disks for less money, but also less disk I/O, CPU, RAM and network bandwidth.

Is this "Big Data"? No, but neither was their 64TB config.

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Re:SanDisk and Nexenta release open-source, flash software-d... by chefkoch on Thursday September 03, 2015 @03:13PM (#10166940)

I wouldn't run nexenta any more, but your setup has no HA and no support.

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Re:SanDisk and Nexenta release open-source, flash software-d... by tracker1 on Thursday September 03, 2015 @04:55PM (#10167482)

You can run 3 x 24TB as a cluster, built for $45K, and get HA/failover... You can still run SmartOS/Illumos and ZFS for that matter... You should also be able to use any number of databases (Cassandra, RethinkDB, Cockroach) on there.

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