8 May
2011
8 May
'11
7:23 p.m.
On 05/08/11 12:06 PM, Jason wrote:
Rudy,
Do you have a recommendation of a motherboard?
I am still reading the rest of your post. Thanks!
most any server board that supports dual intel xeon 5500/5600 will let you pretty easily add 24GB per CPU socket while using relatively affordable 4GB dimms.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DA6.cfm?SAS=N or whatever
you might look at these chassis, which are, IMHO, better engineered than that backblaze thing http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E16-R1400U.cfm
this supports 36 SAS/SATA drives in a 4U (24 in front, 12 in back) and has SAS2 backplane multiplexers so you don't need nearly as many SAS/SATA cards