On 2/20/07, Ryan Byrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Scenario 3: ---------------- HP ProLiant DL320s Server 12 250GB SATA 7.2k drives 2.7GB with RAID 5 3U $5.8K 14 per rack $81.2K per rack 37.8TB per rack 27 racks needed for 1PB $2.2 million
I didn't check to see if "2.7GB with RAID 5" was just a typo, but I would say that this would be a good system. A: It's less than half the cost of the nearest competitor. B: Power use and physical space would be less than any of the others. C: For a fairly insignificant price boost (once you cross $1 million it's academic unless it adds another digit) you could swap 250 GB drives with 500 GB drives and cut down even more on # of racks needed, thereby reducing power consumption even more and save back the cost to upgrade the drives relatively quickly. Of course, at work we recently put together an array that if duplicated to fill one of your 44U racks would beat most of what you've listed. I'm not sure of the details, Michael Torrie could tell you. Are you only looking for "corporate" solutions? -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
