zabbo

I’m very excited. In a small number of hours someone from the PostgreSQL project will be coming by to take away my old fiibre channel storage setup. I had used it for OCFS2 development, mostly, but haven’t touched it in ages. I do hope it works out well for them. It consists of the following:

1. 8 incredibly long copper cables
2. about a million (ok, 11) copper GBICs
3. 8 qla2100 PCI cards (these are not excellent)
4. A tray of 10k rpm Cheetahs, complete with funky NetApp firmware, which could kill a man who attempted to lift them unaided
5. a fibre channel switch whose fans could then wake said dead man

Did I mention the excitement? This crap — er, fantastic storage infrastructure — will no longer take up space in the basement.

These days I do my storage work on an HP DS2405 which is directly connected to an Emulex LPe11002, both donated by said companies. The old setup could hit 100MB/s on a good day. The current kit hits 450MB/s without trying very hard. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.