Damn are all 24 disks internal? That’s some rig! I have the hardware on my latest NAS to connect up to 56 drives in hot-swap bays, and at one point while migrating data to the new drives I had 27 active units. Now that I’ve cleaned it up I’m only running 17 drives but it still seems like quite a stack.
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stealthnerd@lemmy.world 1 year agoI concur and it just gets worse the more hardware you have in them. 256G of memory and 24 disks? Might as well go have lunch while it boots.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 year ago
stealthnerd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yea they’re internal. That’s normal for a fully loaded 2u storage server. Some even have 2-4 extra disk slots in the rear to cram in a few more.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Wow that’s packing a lot in 2u. I’ve only ever had 1u servers so eight 2.5" slots is a lot for these.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
To be fair, that’s for something like the R720xd, which drops the disk drive and tape drive slots to fit an extra 8 disks in the front. I have a regular ole R720 and it only has 16 bays. I didn’t need that many bays, and wanted better thermals for the GPU in it.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah it takes 10 minutes just for my ZFS pool to mount