[HCoop-Discuss] Finalizing Hardware Upgrade

[Clinton Ebadi]

Greetings,

The board voted on Nov 8 to perform an in place upgrade at
Peer1. <http://wiki.hcoop.net/Migration2009/HardwareUpgrade#OptionB>
contains the specs for a hardware purchase; I think we should go with a
single PowerEdge 2970 configured similarly and potentially replace our
IPKVM/KVM with a proper IPMI management console.

We are looking now to nail down the final specs of the machines and
purchase it within the next few weeks. I am leaning toward getting a
hardware RAID5 and using either three 1TB or 500G drives for AFS and a
smaller (lowest sized drives before the cost/G starts increasing) RAID1
for the local file system on the machines. Suggestions are welcome.

Now, if we offered significantly more disk space, how many people would
take advantage of being able to have essentially infinite space? I know
that I would actually upload a bunch of old photographs that take up a
few gigs of disk space.

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