In anticipation of our anti-vibration rack test, we thought we’d give you a sneak peek of the system we’ll be using to measure the results. Say hello to the TeraFiler.
SONY DSC
The system features a dual node head with 16 drives in a 3U chassis and 8 external SAS controller ports per node wired to 4 x 45 drive SuperMicro JBODs with dual expanders and split backplanes. In addition, it also has the following:
- 1 x Chelsio T5 quad port 10GbE NIC per node
- 256 GB of RAM per node
- Each node powered by dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 2.6GHz CPUs
- 1 x LSI SAS9207-8i & 2 x LSI SAS9206-16e per node
- 194 x 4TB of raw capacity
- 2 x ZeusRAM dedicated ZIL drives
So why did we build this behemoth? Mostly, just to see if we could do it. We wanted to see how much capacity we could cram into a TrueNAS appliance and what happens when we do. The system will be dismantled come June but until then, it’ll be used for testing performance, boot up times, scalability, runtime characteristics – really, anything we want… which leads us to our current anti-vibration experiment in the name of science.
Because, why not?
