Re: OT hardware recommend

On 06/18/2016 11:52 AM, Andy Colson wrote:
> On 06/17/2016 04:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 6/17/2016 2:33 PM, John W Higgins wrote:
>>>
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2U-24-bay-2-5-Supermicro-Server-X8DTH-iF-2x-Xeon-Quad-Core-32GB-RAM-SAS2-216EL1-/222132081393?hash=item33b81a92f1:g:UzYAAOSwR5dXSQVw
>>>
>>>
>>> With it being 2U you can then pop out the motherboard and go with
>>> anything more modern you wanted in terms of the motherboard/cpu/ram.
>>
>> I would, however, also buy a LSI/Avago SAS 9207-8i card and remove
>> that 3ware 9750 'hardware' raid controller, which you can probably get
>> $200 for on ebay.
>>
>
> Thanks John and John.  (Thank the John's!)
>
> Seems Like I could also get an HP D2700 off ebay pretty cheap, but I'd
> probably also have to buy a raid card that supports mini-sas, and I'd
> have to find a computer to attach it to.  Anyone with experience with
> those (or similar)?
>
> Any idea's if 15 5400 laptop drives in raid 10 attached to a D2700 would
> be performant at all?

Sure, especially if you get a caching controller and use RAID 10.

That said, a single SSD will blow the doors off of it.

JD

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