Network Storage

Mon Apr 16 09:37:34 UTC 2012

Andrew Thrift writes:
> If you want something from a Tier1 the new Dell R720XD's will take 24x
> 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
> a reasonable cost.