Re: Big Disk Servers

["Matthew Keay" <m@xxxxxxx>]

Piccies! :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Poulton" <swp@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Big Disk Servers


> Hi All,
>
> Thought I'd share my lastest 'homebuild' success with you all.
>
> I've just completed construction of the large IDE disk server I
> descirbed some time ago.
>
> for ~=A38000 my collegues now have use of a single 1.7TB network mount= ed
> disk.
>
> The technical details as follows.
>
> 1  Server Case with 810W PSU 23 5.25 Drive Bays
> 11 3-2 Disk carriers, giving 33 3.5" IDE drive slots
> 2  IDE RAID Cards
> 8  75GB IBM Drives
> 8  160GB MAXTOR Drives
> 2  Netgear Gigabit network cards
> 1  Tiger Athlon MP motherboard
> 2  Duron 1.2 GHz CPU's
> 2  256 MB DDR Dimms
>
> The prime purpose of the above is to server the disk space to 2
> different and indepenent networks. This is done using a very tweaked > version of Redhat 7.1 with a 2.4.18 kernel, and SGI's XFS filesystem,<= BR> > the output from df is included below.
>
> Filesystem          =   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6          &= nbsp;   37G  5.3G   29G  16% /
> /dev/hda1          &= nbsp;   30M  7.4M   21M  26% /boot
> /dev/whitevg1/whitelv1
>            = ;           1.7T  48= 9G  1.2T  28% /data1
>
> By my reconning thats alot of MP3 Space.
>
> The case still has space for an additional 16 drives, using 32 160GB > drives would give a capacity of ~5TB for just under =A312K
>
>
> Anyone wanting any futher info then feel free to contact me off-list,<= BR> > and before anyone asks at 70KG I'm not bringing it to the meeting.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
>
>
>
>
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