Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
by mmt on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @07:58PM
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Hmm.. looks suspiciously like exactly the SuperMicro case, for about twice the price of rolling ones own.
Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
by lsc on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @08:37PM
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from what I understand the coraid systems are plan9-based, and only have a gigabyte of cache ram.
If I only needed one I'd seriously consider it, as my time, for setting up one unit and working out the kinks, would unquestionably be more than that, and they have quite a bit of experience working out the problems by now, even if I made my system redundant, their system would unquestionably be more reliable the first iteration.
However, I plan on needing a bunch more, so it probably makes sense for me to roll my own, work out the kinks, and hopefully end up with something cheaper that has a lot more cache.
Personally, I'm working on a system whereby I just fill up otherwise unused slots on my chassis and use that for backup. The system isn't done yet, but I've got 6 disks out there waiting for me to figure it out.