[Hosting] [Fwd: hardware for trilug?]

[Hunter Matthews]

18 and 36G drives aren't THAT expensive. You could pricewatch around and
try to find some good quality units at a reasonable price.


On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 16:13, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 13:49, Mike Johnson wrote:
> > Jeremy Portzer [jeremyp@pobox.com] wrote:
> > > ibm exp15 rackmount scsi chassis - 3U high, holds 10 hotswap disks.  dual 
> > > channel backplane, dual hotswap power supplies.  has all ten trays but only 
> > > four are drilled for the disks, the rest need to be (anyone with a drill 
> > > press should be able to do the job, but i don't have one).  plus twelve 9gb 
> > > ultra160 SCA disks, brand new (enough to fill the unit plus two spares).
> > 
> > 90GB of storage.  This is the same size as /mirrors on dargo (and a
> > couple spare drives).  I'm sure we could find some way to make holes.
> 
> Actually, 90GB is a bit less than we've got.
> 
> % df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mirrors_volume/mirrors_logical_volume
>                       101G   85G   11G  89% /mirrors
> 
> Note that we're already using 85GB, so I'd prefer we not downgrade. 
> If we can get more space (to get up to the 101G we hav now), that would
> be good.
> 
> Getting more space in the rack (by swapping out the full tower there
> currently), though, is a very good idea.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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