<div dir="ltr">Hi guys, this is my first message on the list although We've been using gluster for the last 6 months. I was asked to build a new gluster cluster to contain around 30 T bytes (and should be able to grow further). Our budget is really limited and we are thinking about buying cheap hardware (PCs with no RAID). <div>
<br></div><div>The idea is: </div><div>-PCs will host 5 4T drives as bricks and a system drive. 8 Gbytes of RAM, 2 Gbit ethernet ports, i5 proccessor.</div><div>-We don't care about space as we've got plenty of it now.</div>
<div>-We don't care about energy consumption as we don't pay for it now.</div><div>-We aren't looking for High performance storage but cheap, and easy to grow.</div><div>-I want to buy 8 PCs and 24 4T WD red drives to reach 48 Tbytes duplicated in the cluster. This way I can place 3 bricks in each PC and still have two free slots to grow up to 80TB.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>I'd like to know your opinion about:</div><div>-The HW I want to use</div><div>-What Gluster version should I pick, 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5? I have a small 3.5.1 deployment working right now, but I don't if it's the best choice for a production cluster.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Pavlik Salles Juan José<div>Blog - <a href="http://viviendolared.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://viviendolared.blogspot.com</a></div></div>
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