[Hcoop-discuss] Server pricing

[Shaun Empie]

> So you don't think it's appropriate to have a dedicated file server?  I
> thought that we had definitely agreed on using a shared filesystem in a
> previous thread.  Are you proposing that the "hcoop administration and
> services" server be the one with the terabytes of storage attached to
> it?  (I have no doubt that even the current membership size could
> gainfully use a terabyte of disk space if we announced that we could

Sorry I haven't piped up in a while, had a week long conference in vegas
to attend and I have been recovering ever since.

I am completely for a shared filesystem as previously discussed.  I think
it would be key to making sure we have a good plan for data recovery.  I
could also benefit from having a large amount of storage.  I don't have a
strong hardware/vendor preference, but I think those dell servers would
work well since they've already been proven in other production
environments.