I'm skeptical about how well this would work, but a Banana Pi might be a place to start. Like a raspberry pi, but it has a SATA connector: http://www.bananapi.org/
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:18 AM, Jerker Nyberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello ceph users, > > Is anyone running any low powered single disk nodes with Ceph now? Calxeda > seems to be no more according to Wikipedia. I do not think HP moonshot is > what I am looking for - I want stand-alone nodes, not server cartridges > integrated into server chassis. And I do not want to be locked to a single > vendor. > > I was playing with Raspberry Pi 2 for signage when I thought of my old > experiments with Ceph. > > I am thinking of for example Odroid-C1 or Odroid-XU3 Lite or maybe > something with a low-power Intel x64/x86 processor. Together with one SSD > or one low power HDD the node could get all power via PoE (via splitter or > integrated into board if such boards exist). PoE provide remote power-on > power-off even for consumer grade nodes. > > The cost for a single low power node should be able to compete with > traditional PC-servers price per disk. Ceph take care of redundancy. > > I think simple custom casing should be good enough - maybe just strap or > velcro everything on trays in the rack, at least for the nodes with SSD. > > Kind regards, > -- > Jerker Nyberg, Uppsala, Sweden. > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >
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