Read more.The performance of a rack, the convenience of a NAS.
Read more.The performance of a rack, the convenience of a NAS.
Did I miss the price somewhere? Nope I was just lazy. that's serious dough for a serious setup!
Last edited by 3dcandy; 06-08-2013 at 10:23 AM. Reason: cos I'm blind!
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
very base model £1,495
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
Shame not to see some more random data benchmarks or something more relevant to use as shared storage with virtual machine hosts. Something this powerful is kind of wasted on sequential file operations and streaming, seems like it'd work nicely as an iSCSI or NFS system.
I wish i was a few hundred quid less in price.
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If you want stuff like hot swap power supplies, then sorry that costs money.
If not, then build your own.
£60 Cheap motherboard with 6 sata connections and should support ECC ram: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-...-on-board-matx
£90 for FX6300 cpu http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-f...che-95w-retail
£73 for a 5 disk tray: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/icy-b...o-3-x-525-bays
Add plenty of ECC ram, case with space for the drive array in the front, decent PSU. If I get time later I might try and finish a spec, I am kind of interested now how much it would cost
6 SATA ports gives you one boot drive + 5 raid array drives. If you run raid-Z then you don't want a raid controller in the way anyway.
Edit to add:
£52 Case with 9 5.25" external bays: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/shark...gement-w-o-psu
£94 for 8GB Unbuffered ECC RAM: 2x http://www.scan.co.uk/products/4gb-h...d-cas-11-11-11
Last edited by DanceswithUnix; 09-08-2013 at 06:50 PM.
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