Re: [Moosefs-users] Hardware choice

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On 04/20/2012 04:09 AM, Chris Picton wrote:
> I was looking at supermicro chassis and found the following chassis
> types which seem to offer highest density:
>
> 2u: 12x 3.5" http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/?chs=827
>
> Does anyone have feedback on supermicro/these chassis?

I use a lot of SuperMicro kit here. It performs well, is very reliable,
and at the right price. (I buy from http://www.siliconmechanics.com/)

I have three of the above chassis and a couple older 8-bay systems in my 
cluster. Because Moose is so good at dealing with system failure but 
slow to re-balance chunks I would recommend several "smaller" capacity 
servers over a few very large ones. Even at 10TB per server it takes a 
very long time to re-balance when I add or remove a system from the 
cluster; I would avoid going over about 10TB per server. Less is more in 
this case.

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