[SAC] New Server Feedback or Vote

[Harrison Grundy]

Using SSDs, you may not need the performance improvement 50 gives over
5. Aside from this, we've found the larger SSDs tend to outperform their
smaller counterparts.

We have not seen a notable difference between the "Datacenter" series
MLC SSDs and their consumer counterparts in production deployments.
Depending on how the machine is going to be set up, it may make more
sense to get the drives from a third party.

Given the price per GB, you may be able to go with 3x480 for roughly the
same price point, and leave yourself 3 extra bays if you end up needing
additional space later.

That being said, it looks good to me. The stuff outlined above is all
pretty minor or more preference-driven than functional.

--- Harrison

On 04/07/15 12:25, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Here's what I'm thinking we should order to replace osgeo4.
> 
> http://www.siliconmechanics.com/quotes/287252?confirmation=1751481707
> I expect the price to be about $5626.97 before shipping costs.
> 
> Plan:
> Latest Debian
> Software RAID 1 Mirror 80GB SSD OS Drives
> Software RAID 50 2x3 240GB SSD (usable space n-2 with performance of
> RAID 5) ~ 860 GB usable after formatting
> 1 Hot spare 240GB drive in the optical drive slot.
> 
> Please provide feedback. I'd like to try and order by the end of this week.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> PS: We also plan to ship Astrodog's FreeBSD machine to OSUOSL. This
> machine will provide additional capacity. Not sure where we are in that
> plan timeline it depended on the JIRA migration.
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