[CentOS] Building a Back Blaze style POD

On 05/08/11 12:06 PM, Jason wrote:
> Rudy,
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> Do you have a recommendation of a motherboard?
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> 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