shadowwyvern
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A friend recently asked me for advice on a problem he was facing at work.
The company he works for has systems that record data to large numbers of SSDs, and then the SSDs get physically transferred to a server-type box to offload the data onto some other storage medium (eg, a large disk array). He currently works with 48 drives at a time.
Their current solution has 12 hot-swap bays, and they load the drives in groups of 12 and cycle through until all the drives are offloaded. This is, obviously, very inefficient, and they are looking to upgrade to a better system.
The requirements are basically:
1) 48 hotswap drive bays
2) Support for 48 SSDs. This is really tricky, because SSD's draw most/all of their power from the 5V rail, so for 48 of them, that could be 240+W
3) Ideally, support for 20+TB of non-SSD storage to store the offloaded data on. My one immediate suggestion was that a 2-system solution, connected by 10Gb ethernet or similar, should be considered.
I found this chassis: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/418/SC418E16-R1K62B2.cfm, which looks great, except it's power supply doesn't have enough 5V amps.
Since this is a professional project, my friend's company is probably going to go with a proper commercial solution, but does anyone have any insight as to what that specifically might entail?
Thanks!
The company he works for has systems that record data to large numbers of SSDs, and then the SSDs get physically transferred to a server-type box to offload the data onto some other storage medium (eg, a large disk array). He currently works with 48 drives at a time.
Their current solution has 12 hot-swap bays, and they load the drives in groups of 12 and cycle through until all the drives are offloaded. This is, obviously, very inefficient, and they are looking to upgrade to a better system.
The requirements are basically:
1) 48 hotswap drive bays
2) Support for 48 SSDs. This is really tricky, because SSD's draw most/all of their power from the 5V rail, so for 48 of them, that could be 240+W
3) Ideally, support for 20+TB of non-SSD storage to store the offloaded data on. My one immediate suggestion was that a 2-system solution, connected by 10Gb ethernet or similar, should be considered.
I found this chassis: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/418/SC418E16-R1K62B2.cfm, which looks great, except it's power supply doesn't have enough 5V amps.
Since this is a professional project, my friend's company is probably going to go with a proper commercial solution, but does anyone have any insight as to what that specifically might entail?
Thanks!