Did you actually buy anything yet?Dell C6100 XS23-TY3 is en route at $1,000 + 70 shipping.
HP Procurve V1910-24G ETA 1/12.
Now just need the firewall and a few more drives.
Those do not show power consumed? I do like the auto-ping though.When you get to the power part of your design, take a look at these rather inexpensive ethernet-controlled power strips:
http://www.digital-loggers.com/epcr3.html
http://www.digital-loggers.com/220.html
http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
After hearing good things about them, I ordered the 18 outlet version to make it easier to shut down my DEV environment for the evening - via iRule and an iPad.
Those do not show power consumed? I do like the auto-ping though.
So I have been "exploring" the idea of doing Dacentec + adding power to the rack. The idea there would be more power and bandwidth + spend more on a CDN.
Exactly... so if I'm spending $400 on a PDU I'll make the costs back rather quickly....and Dacentec charges $50/month for an IP PDU. Got it.
Exactly... so if I'm spending $400 on a PDU I'll make the costs back rather quickly.
Great point... 2x for C6100, 2x for switches, 2x for the firewalls... Makes sense I guess. Plus local 408 area code so bay area.
320s new or ebay? New prices are ridiculousness, but as you said, cheapest SSDs with supercaps. I wish I would have bought a few more then they were on sale/discontinued two Thanksgivings back.Thanks dba! Will keep that in mind.
Update: Ordered 4x Intel 320 SSD 160GB today. For those wondering, will likely OP to 120gigs usable, and these are the lowest cost drives with capacitors out there.
C6100 arrives tomorrow along with 24x 8GB DDR3 DIMMs to augment (or replace) the 24x 4GB already in there.
A lot of the newer drives save data to RAM as a buffer prior to writing. That became a very common way to improve SSD performance, especially at smaller file sizes. Scaling it up (kinda) it is like using a RAID card's onboard RAM (on-SSD RAM) for write caching prior to writing to disks (NAND packages.) Supercaps are like having a capacitor backed write cache. No supercaps are like running write cache without having a flash backed write cache/ BBWC.Why are super caps such a big deal?