Hello, Im hoping someone(s) can recommend commodity hardware to use in a 2 and/or 3 server unify setup. I am discussing with our other admins about migrating from a monolithic 16 drive scsi (160 drives) nfs server to a 2 or 3 server glusterfs setup. Given the two options what would you use for 2 and 3 machines? Should I use something like (2) Quad core 9850 8g ram 8 sata2 120g drives, raid10 or (3) Dual core 5600 4/6g ram 8 sata2 80g drives, raid10 If you would recommend a 3 server setup I would probably want the cheaper hardware where possible. Im just not sure (from lack of experience) if there would be a benefit to having 3 machines, but lesser horsepower, than 2 machines. The use of this is a 215 gig maildir format mail store.Our current scsi setup is using 73 gig drives on a P4 3ghz, 4g ram. One of the questions asked by one of the admins was whether a two 8 drive raids would perform as well/better using glusterfs than a monolithic 16 drive raid. My thought was yes based on we would have two machines with lots of ram compared to a single cpu, and also double the bandwidth. Also the cost of buying two 8 drives machines is less than a single 16 drive machine. Anyone out there with previous experience with something like this that can point me in a direction?
