> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 3:42 AM, James Harper > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone used a consumer grade NAS (netgear, qnap, dlink, etc) as an > OSD before? > > > > Qnap TS-421 has a Marvell 2Ghz CPU, 1Gbyte memory, dual gigabit > Ethernet, and 4 hotswap disk bays. Is there anything about the Marvell CPU > that would make OSD run badly? What about mon? > > It's a pretty limited ratio of CPU/memory to disk, would be the main > issue. Typical recommendations are more like 1-2GHz of modern > Intel/AMD core per process and 1-2GB of RAM; here you're looking at > quite a lot less than that. > Still, that doesn't mean it couldn't work if you lower your > performance expectations and run some tests on failure handling. :)
Thanks. That's the sort of answer I was looking for. The unit itself is around $500 without any disks, and I can get a PC with a lot more grunt for about that. The main attraction was the simplicity of the hotswap bays and the size. Thanks again. James _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
