On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Guys, we are about to get two of these > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/6047/SSG-6047R-E1R36N.cfm and > the seller said that we have to use one of the 36 drives as OS drive. I'd > like to avoid using one of the swappable drives for the OS, has anyone tried > running gluster nodes from flash pendrives? Is it a better idea than loosing > one of the drives? Any other idea? > > Regards, Some of these supermicro servers allow you to add two 2.5" drives (eg: for a software mdadm raid 1) in the rear with a special bracket. If the server doesn't support this bracket, then you can enclose them internally. I wrote about this type of hardware setup here: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/my-gluster-setup-described/ (old post, not necessarily still relevant, but idk) HTH James _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
