Re: Offtopic : Large hostings and colocations ¿where?

[Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>]

Igor TAmara <igor@tamarapatino.org> writes:

> P.D:Do you have a recommendation about buying computers that can
> hold 2Tb of space? would it be possible to have a server of that
> less than U$3000.   I saw  Dell 1430SC, but I would like to know if
> there are similar options

I recently bought 2 systems each 4TB SATA (8*500GB), software RAID5 on
Marvel "Raid" card, 2 Opteron, x2 cores CPUs, 4GB RAM. 2U form factor.
US$5k each.  Your price point should be obtainable.  

Some resulting bonnie++ benchmarks:
http://www.phy.bnl.gov/computing/index.php/Cluster_Disks

Because of my email address I technically can't endorse the vendor but
go to www.aslab.com and play with the configurations to get an idea of
what is possible.

-Brett.