[152169] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Network Storage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Weaver)
Mon Apr 16 11:58:52 2012
From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com>
To: 'Simon Leinen' <simon.leinen@switch.ch>, Andrew Thrift
<andrew@networklabs.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:58:08 -0400
In-Reply-To: <aaboms5869.fsf@macsl.switch.ch>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'd like to point out that you can actually do 26 2.5" disks on an R720xd i=
f you use the flexbay +1 SD card for your os install if you're being a maxi=
malist. =3D)
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Leinen [mailto:simon.leinen@switch.ch]=20
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 5:38 AM
To: Andrew Thrift
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Network Storage
Andrew Thrift writes:
> If you want something from a Tier1 the new Dell R720XD's will take 24x=20
> 900GB SAS disks
or 12x 2TB 3.5" cheap & slow SATA disks
or 12x 3TB 3.5" more expensive & slightly faster SAS disks
- if you take the (cheaper) 3.5"-disk variant of the R720xd chassis.
or 12x 3TB 3.5" cheap&slow SATA disks if you buy them directly rather than =
from Dell. (Presumably you'd have to buy Dell "hot-swap trays")
--
Simon.
> and have 16 cores. If you order it with a SAS6-HBA you can add up to
> 8 trays of 24 x 900GB SAS disks to provide 194TB of raw space at quite=20
> a reasonable cost.
