On January 25, 2016 11:59:36 AM MST, [email protected] wrote: >i'm consdering a really small deployment (think: 15 desktops hitting a >windows terminal services vm, with a simple samba fileserver running in >vm). this does not require a lot of network or disk bandwidth, from >what i can see so far. the deployment is for a very small company >without a lot of money, so of course i'm trying to determine how to >save money on the project. for the disk subsystem, the server i have >been given to play with has 4 sata ports and only 16GB memory. which >would potentially work the best - 3x spinning disks and a consumer ssd >for cache, or maybe 4 consumer ssd with mirrored stripes? or will >consumer devices just result in pain no matter what?
A SAS JBOD card seems like a useful addition here, that way you can configure your disks in a raidz with the addition of one disk as a hot spare ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
