<div dir="ltr">Hi James, that post was my inspiration actually hahaha. I just re-checked the link and you are right, there's an optional fixed internal bay for drives so I'll ask the seller if they can provide it. When I asked them for this specification they said that only 826B chasis have the rear drive kit. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-08-11 16:53 GMT-03:00 James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:purpleidea@gmail.com" target="_blank">purpleidea@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles<br>
<<a href="mailto:jjpavlik@gmail.com">jjpavlik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Guys, we are about to get two of these<br>
> <a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R36N.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R36N.cfm</a> and<br>
> the seller said that we have to use one of the 36 drives as OS drive. I'd<br>
> like to avoid using one of the swappable drives for the OS, has anyone tried<br>
> running gluster nodes from flash pendrives? Is it a better idea than loosing<br>
> one of the drives? Any other idea?<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
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</div>Some of these supermicro servers allow you to add two 2.5" drives (eg:<br>
for a software mdadm raid 1) in the rear with a special bracket. If<br>
the server doesn't support this bracket, then you can enclose them<br>
internally. I wrote about this type of hardware setup here:<br>
<a href="https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/my-gluster-setup-described/" target="_blank">https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/my-gluster-setup-described/</a><br>
(old post, not necessarily still relevant, but idk)<br>
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HTH<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">James<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><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>
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