Did you mean 2 nodes in 2U? Dell, HP and SuperMicro all have models that fit the bill. If you really did mean 2 nodes in 1U you're looking at either 2.5" drives or < 4 spindles per node, neither of which is ideal for Hadoop/HBase in terms of !/$ (bang per buck).
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Jason Lotz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the continued input on this. Very interesting replies. > > I'm particularly interested in the 2 nodes in 1U servers. We'll look into > it. > > Jason > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Jonathan Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Just avoid the dell hard drives, they are a super-rip off. Which btw > > > means you'll have to avoid dells, because the _only_ way to get the > > > dell disk trays which are required is to buy dell hard drives (3-4x > > > markup btw). > > > > +1 on crazy markup. But there actually are some online retailers out > there > > that sell the trays. I think you can find them on ebay as well. > > > > I was forced to do this at one point because Dell wasn't stocking the > > latest Intel SSDs about a year ago. > > >
