From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 19:40:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB2FB16A400 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 19:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: from mail.alameda.net (mail.alameda.net [64.81.53.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC7A13C46A for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 19:40:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: by mail.alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6797533CF4; Sat, 12 May 2007 12:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:17:19 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav Message-ID: <20070512191718.GR90777@evil.alameda.net> References: <20070511125241.O3724@ngaio.unixathome.org> <86646x51i3.fsf@dwp.des.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86646x51i3.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-ANI-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ANI-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ANI-MailScanner-From: ulf@alameda.net Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:40:08 -0000 On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:40:36PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Dan Langille writes: > > My work (yes, Im now employed) is looking at deploying servers to > > client sites. They arent so much servers as appliances. The boxes > > serve a distinct function, and not much else. > > > > Our hardware needs: > > between 2TB and 8TB of storage in a RAID configuration > > 1U or 2U case > > good reputation > > Sounds like you need a SunFire X4500, except they're 4U. I'm not sure > you can get 8 TB into 2U with today's hardware; you'd need at least 16 > data disks, plus parity and spares, say 20 altogether. The most I've > ever seen in a 2U case is 8. HP DL320s, 2U, can have 12 SAS or SATA drives. 4.20TB gross or 10.5TB gross. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html