[Beowulf] Any recommendations for a good JBOD?

[Alex Chekholko]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:05:01 -0600
Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Patrick Geoffray <patrick at myri.com> wrote:
> > On 2/18/2010 2:26 PM, Jesse Becker wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:12:05PM -0500, Gerald Creager wrote:
> >>>
> >>> For what you're describing, I'd consider CoRAID's AoE technology and
> >
> >> I'll second this recommendation. The Coraid servers are fairly
> >
> > +1. The AoE spec is very simple, I wish it would have more traction outside
> > CoRaID. On the opposite, iSCSI is a utter mess with all the bad technical
> > choices.
> 
> Thanks for the pointers! I had never heard of AoE before!

This is all well and good until you compare the prices of the respective solutions.

E.g. what's the cheapest 5TB (usable) AoE box you can buy?

Regards,
-- 
Alex Chekholko   chekh at pcbi.upenn.edu