I'd like to point out that you can actually do 26 2.5" disks on an R720xd if you use the flexbay +1 SD card for your os install if you're being a maximalist. =) -Drew -----Original Message----- From: Simon Leinen [mailto:simon.leinen@switch.ch] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 5:38 AM To: Andrew Thrift Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Network Storage Andrew Thrift writes:
If you want something from a Tier1 the new Dell R720XD's will take 24x 900GB SAS disks
or 12x 2TB 3.5" cheap & slow SATA disks or 12x 3TB 3.5" more expensive & slightly faster SAS disks - if you take the (cheaper) 3.5"-disk variant of the R720xd chassis. or 12x 3TB 3.5" cheap&slow SATA disks if you buy them directly rather than from Dell. (Presumably you'd have to buy Dell "hot-swap trays") -- Simon.
and have 16 cores. If you order it with a SAS6-HBA you can add up to 8 trays of 24 x 900GB SAS disks to provide 194TB of raw space at quite a reasonable cost.