I'm not sure if this is the best place to look for hardware recommendations, but I was drawn to the TMM concept being discussed here and I am thinking about buying several units for use as Ceph OSDs. I don't have a ton of storage so I just need a couple of lower-power nodes that can handle a few hard drives each - I need to expand horizontally before I consider going vertical since running Ceph on one giant node doesn't make sense.
I've been a bit frustrated by used product sites since they rarely have filters for the IO or power draw, which is what I'm mostly concerned with.
I'll be mostly using external storage and spinning disks, so my requirements are:
I'd be interested in pointers to cheap hardware in any form. I'd rather have more cheap nodes than a few expensive ones at least to start out.
I've been a bit frustrated by used product sites since they rarely have filters for the IO or power draw, which is what I'm mostly concerned with.
I'll be mostly using external storage and spinning disks, so my requirements are:
- USB3 ports
- At least gigabit LAN (more if possible)
- 16GB of RAM (8GB might work, but OSDs can consume memory during rebuilds)
- Low power draw
I'd be interested in pointers to cheap hardware in any form. I'd rather have more cheap nodes than a few expensive ones at least to start out.