Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by jwilliams on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @01:06AM (#799508)

Awesome. Brings up a few questions for me (sure there are answers, just curious really).

Why a Core 2? An Atom mobo would be lower power and cheaper. Why 4Gb? Seems like an overkill. They are using a HD to boot. Couldn't they boot of a USB key?

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Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by yellowbkpk on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @09:52AM (#800133)

I don't know for sure, but there might not be an Atom-based board that has as many PCI/PCIe slots.

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Re:Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage by jwilliams on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @09:42PM (#801566)

Good point. The one I've got only has one PCI in fact.

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