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.
2014-08-11 16:53 GMT-03:00 James <purpleidea@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Juan José Pavlik SallesSome of these supermicro servers allow you to add two 2.5" drives (eg:
<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,
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
Pavlik Salles Juan José
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