time for a new grommit
October 3rd, 2007 Stephen Lau
So it looks like grommit is both overloaded (starting to hit some higher load averages) and out of space. Doh.
I started shopping around for machines; I think I’ve found some pretty good 1U quad core Intel boxes with enough storage to keep me happy. I looked pretty longingly at the x4150, but I think I’m going to have to end up going with a whitebox system for a few reasons.
grommit’s biggest limiting factor is its storage. I need gobs of storage…. as much as I can pack into 1U. The best bang for the buck here looks to be a 1U chassis with 4xSATA drives. I can populate initially with 2×750 Seagate ES drives and have the other two bays for future expansion. The x4150 looks nice, especially with the 8 SAS drives, but as benr pointed out recently, the 2.5″ SAS drives are only at 176GB right now. I’d need at least 4 of them to meet grommit’s current requirements which rapidly prices me out of the ~$2k I was hoping to spend on a new grommit machine.
Colfax has a pretty nice 1U Quad-core Intel Xeon box (Supermicro board) with 4xSATA bays (with the 2×750GB Seagate drives) and 4GB of memory for $2100 which looks pretty tempting. I think it’d run Solaris pretty well; wouldn’t have the sexy Sun look - but well, it’s going into a datacentre - so who cares. 
[tags: Computers]
2 Comments Add your own
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Tomasz | October 4th, 2007 at 02:12
As for disks, ST31000340NS is 1 TB Seagate Barracuda ES.
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Aaron | October 4th, 2007 at 06:38
we have a couple of these and are happy with them. don’t buy the drives from them though, their markup is crazy :).
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