On 18/06/16 14:23, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net
> <mailto:andy@squeakycode.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have access to quite a few laptop HD's (10 to 15 of them at
> least), and thought that might make a neat test box that might
> have some good IO speed.
>
> Needs to be cheap though, so linux with software raid, rack mount
> preferred but not required.
>
> Anyone have any experience with anything like that? $2K might be
> possible, painful, but possible.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> Sell them all and buy a couple of 800G SSDs? :)
You can get 4TB SSD's now - but somewhat pricey!!!
(besides, you'd still need backups)