Sun Fire X2100 -- nForce4 Ultra desktop chipset
Eugen Leitl
eugen at leitl.org
Sun Nov 27 09:02:27 UTC 2005
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:49:36PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> You'd be surprised.
Pointers? (Barebone with CPU and memory, no drives, good engineering,
about 600 EUR).
> > The system has 2x GBit Ethernet,
>
> GbE on its own means nothing.
It means that I don't have a storage subsystem
which can feed each machine at 200 MByte/s. My current HA NFS
system (dual mini-ITX) maxes out at about two orders of magnitude
less.
> > The redundancy can be achieved with a distributed file system,
>
> At a massive performance penalty.
Distributed file systems like Lustre and PVFS scale with
the number of nodes. For my purposes (unified filestore
in the rack, serving the world through a single 100 MBit
Ethernet port) it's more than sufficient. I'm more concerned
about power requirements than speed. Another must is redundancy,
and remote management.
> > or a AoE SATA enclosure.
>
> Don't tell me you've bought into their marketing too? ;->
> CoRAID's performance is crap, as well as its features (or lackthereof).
I've never used it, but if it provides a couple
of TBytes at 30-60 MByte/s throughput and failover
for a reasonable price (say, 3 k$) that would be
sufficient.
> But let's talk beyond that.
> Redundancy is much cheaper internally.
Which is why I mentioned a distributed file system
spanned over RAID 1 or RAID 5 volumes.
> nForce Professional chipsets, as well as the Broadcom ServerWorks
> HT1000. Mainboards start at $200, both Socket-939 or 940.
I'm not interested in isolated barebones but complete systems,
including CPU, some memory, sliding rails and IMPI or other
out of band LOM.
> > I've gone with dual Hitachi Deskstar T7250s, which is a reasonable
> > approximation to an enterprise SATA drive.
>
> Actually, the Western Digital Raptor is an SATA version of the Hitachi
> UltraStar 10k. But I'd still consider 24x7 rated drives, even in the
> commodity capacities.
I use Raptors in my desktop machines and home servers as the system
drive but it is far too small for the storage volume/unit of rack
space that I need.
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