Re: Optimal Storage Server
I am thinking of the Norco 16/20 hotswap and a 2x operton QC CPU m/b
but wasnt sure what a solid performing m/b would be that will work
well with the LSI? Any thoughts?
Thanks my hands are now itching for this project to be completed :-)
Sam.
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Ramon Hofer <ramonhofer@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> On 7/22/2012 10:17 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>>
>> > But if you multiply the price of five Netgear NV+ (which each holds four
>> > disks) ~ CHF 300.-- each then this isn't what I'd call cheap.
>>
>> And even if your self built (take lots of pride in that achievement BTW)
>> Norco solution is slightly more expensive, you have a large number of
>> advantages, not least of which is increased performance. You can also
>> have all your files under one share/mapping where that would be 5 shares
>> using the ready made NAS boxen. And you intentionally built it leaving
>> some performance on the table, for increased flexibility WRT expansion
>> with one filesystem tree.
>>
>> You're getting ~60MB/s server <> laptop now (which is pretty nice for a
>> laptop mechanical drive). Drop an SSD into the laptop and you should be
>> seeing closer to 90-100MB/s, assuming you're cabled with GbE and the
>> NICs on both ends are decent.
>>
>> > And with the speed and possibilities it gives me I consider my solution
>> > better than what I could get from a ready to use NAS.
>>
>> Amen. ;)
>>
>> Just imagine what it would do if you started from scratch with 20 of the
>> Black drives in md/RAID6 w/a 32K chunk, and XFS tuned to the stripe.
>> You'd easily hit 1GB/s streaming reads, with streaming writes probably
>> >500MB/s. Depends on your CPU. I forgot which one is in the Asus board.
>
> You're absolutely right what the pride concerns :-)
> And as well the cost. But I could use the old mobo, CPU (i3 550) so this
> looks a bit better for the Norco solution.
>
> Btw: I'm still waiting for this damping mats :-/
> Can only take some more weeks...
>
>
> Cheers
> Ramon
>
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