No Buck Rogers Budget

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 24 17:00:52 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:07:42AM -0400, Teddy Mills wrote:
> okay. i understand. a 10kVA UPS can be 100K itself.
> Fine...but the budget is around 20k to 50k..you should be able to get 
> some decent stuff for that.
> Maybe not the Buck Rogers stuff, but maybe some Space 1999 hw. (remember 
> that show?)

If you want to make reliable processing/fileserver/whatever servers with
reliable storage and such for that budget, about the best you are likely
to do would be:

3ware 9500 run SATA raid (hot swap bays are easy to get for that now)

maybe some dual opteron boxes with enough ram.

gigabit ethernet should be reasonable in price now, along with whatever
switch is needed.

Any kind of redundant fileserving tends to get into the expensive range
(I have seen NFS servers that use SATA drives and can stay in sync
themselves for I think $15000 each for 15 drive models.)  That means if
the fileserver dies, the other keeps serving NFS on the same IP with the
same data.  Rather nice, if that is what you need.

load balanced and redundant web servers are much easier (although if
they receive and store data, that gets tricky unless you have the
redundant NFS server).

So what is the purpose of this setup going to be?  WEbserving, database,
file serving, or what?

Lennart Sorensen
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