Dell PowerEdge C2100 with 24 Drive bays
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@Dashrender said:
What makes it non via? I'm assuming you can add a RAID controller?
Everything about a C series is designed to be disposable. Everything. Non-redundant parts, cheaper parts. This is literally a disposable node design, like a BackBlaze POD. This is designed exclusively for situations where you have many redundant nodes and you don't care if one or two just die on you.
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Cheap for a reason. The C stands for Cluster.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Cheap for a reason. The C stands for Cluster.
As in Cluster F*** I'm guessing then.
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Ha ha, no not really, but that is a great way to think about it.
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So really my only choice would be something like a R720XD.
Loaded with 12 6TB SATA drives in RAID 10.
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@DustinB3403 said:
So really my only choice would be something like a R720XD.
Loaded with 12 6TB SATA drives in RAID 10.
Would you need RAID 10 for this? Maybe RAID 6 would work for this use case?
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It's a matter of reliability.
Using consumer grade SATA drives RAID10 seems to make more sense, doesn't it?
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@DustinB3403 said:
So really my only choice would be something like a R720XD.
Loaded with 12 6TB SATA drives in RAID 10.
Why not an R510, much cheaper.
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Plus moving as much data as we have off weekly the write speed gain would be worth it.
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@DustinB3403 said:
It's a matter of reliability.
Using consumer grade SATA drives RAID10 seems to make more sense, doesn't it?
Check the price of RE drives in RAID 6. Might be cheaper with 12 drives.
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Western Digital Red's at 4TB (12 in total) would cost ~$1800.
At RAID 6
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@DustinB3403 said:
Western Digital Red's at 4TB (12 in total) would cost ~$1800.
At RAID 6
So WD Red (Consumer 5400 RPM) for 24TB is $1800.
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WD RE (Enterprise) in RAID 6 would be 30TB for $1884.
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So Red would be just barely cheaper, RE would be just barely larger. Red would be faster for random writes. RE way faster for reads.
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If you went for smaller WD RE drives (2TB instead of 3TB) you could get 20TB usable for just $1,380.
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For everyone's reference:
WD Red is consumer, 5400 RPM
WD Red Pro is consumer, 7200 RPM
WD RE is enterprise, 7200 RPM -
The trouble is at 24TB for backup there isn't much room for growth with this backup solution
So larger drives would be needed.
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@DustinB3403 said:
The trouble is at 24TB for backup there isn't much room for growth with this backup solution
So larger drives would be needed.
Then going to 30TB would be good.
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If you splurge to $2,352 you can leap to the 4TB RE drives and suddenly you have 40TB to work with!
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Now that remains SATA. If you are worried about performance the 4TB WD RE SAS drives will give you a huge boost in random access and only cost $2,436. Now that much more.
