High Performance All SSD Array?

[joelmusicman]

Why go with FC(which is virtually impossible if someone has to ask how hard it is to implement) when you can buy 10Gb LAN cards for $120 each on ebay. I got direct 10Gb from my main desktop to my server and total cost(if I had paid for it) would have been about $270 with cabling.

Yeah, I did a bit more research on FC and came to the same conclusion. I saw the FC thread in the hacking subforum on here and as soon as he said "modify the kernel" I decided that would be WAAYYY too much heartache.

I wonder if I could scavenge some 10g NICs from work. We dispose of servers by the pallet...

 

[cyberjock]

I'll take 2. ;)

 

[Cheese]

hm... I may be feeling a bit stupid right now for recycling some of my old 4g fibre switches. %^@*!(

 

[HoneyBadger]

hm... I may be feeling a bit stupid right now for recycling some of my old 4g fibre switches. %^@*!(

If you're just connecting two machines, you can set them up as point-to-point quite inexpensively. But at this point the thought experiment is getting a little off track, and dangerously close to starting up the old FC vs iSCSI holy wars here. ;)

 

[joelmusicman]

hm... I may be feeling a bit stupid right now for recycling some of my old 4g fibre switches. %^@*!(

Before you swear too much, you might want to read up on this thread... It sounds doable, but quite a bit can go wrong. I'd imagine the ESXi route would be quite a bit easier.