Re: OT hardware recommend

On 06/17/2016 09:23 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Andy Colson <andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net <mailto:andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net>> wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> I have access to quite a few laptop HD's (10 to 15 of them at least), and thought that might make a neat test box that might have some good IO speed.
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> Needs to be cheap though, so linux with software raid, rack mount preferred but not required.
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> Anyone have any experience with anything like that? $2K might be possible, painful, but possible.
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> Suggestions?
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>
> Sell them all and buy a couple of 800G SSDs? :)
Gaaa.. math!

Yep, had not thought about that. But do I want speed or space? How much could we sell them for? So many questions I had not thought about. I'd just thought, "huh, a pile of laptop drives, I'd better raid them", and not much else.

We have good production boxes, so this would only be for test/play. I don't even really have a purpose, other than maybe learning something new.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

-Andy