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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Max Siegieda wrote: > I should point out they've made some... inefficient choices there. For > example, for only a small increase in price they could get 8 port PCI-E > cards, there are also plenty of motherboards out there with more PCI/E > slots. The two PSUs are also a bit of a waste, since they could convert > any spare 12v current to 5v quite easily. > > I reckon they've just skimped out a bit, you could easily get each > server to hit 200TB usable. > The second power supply could be for redundancy, however if they where going for redundant design then I guess a mirror for the boot drive would be appropriate. Looking at the spec given, a large part of the storage could drop out of existence simply through boot drive failure. Possibly they mirror or raid the pods to achieve the same effect? who knows? As it stands I wouldn't want to offer industrial strength storage hosting with a single unit of that configuration ;-) But I have to agree it would make a nice home NAS solution (if a little on the pricey side). Tom. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqrraEACgkQBX2gJWUv0isu5gCgjZde6VHVcxVe9fnIk1g0LXTP jY4An0iSyp3pU3+ZZd6sNR+Fz30Kow9i =OjNX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html