On Fri, 2021-12-31 at 12:18 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > RAID boxes have some useful capabilities like staging power to drives > on startup. There are use cases that do trivial computations on > 1000's of files where it would be really nice to have lots of cheap > compute nodes, each with a disk, so you could distribute the files to > the disks and have the output files appear in some > network filesystem. > > There are some youtube videos for R-pi NAS -- getting power to all > the drives is an issue and without staging you need a very capable > PS. Ah, the days when I ran a BBS on an Amiga 2000. 5 or 6 SCSI hard drives mounted inside, running on the original power supply (and hard drives wanted a fair whack of power in those days, despite being very small in size - hence the large number of them). Never skipped a beat. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
