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by technofiend 2419 days ago
Raspberry Pis haven't quite got there yet but I'm hoping the next iteration will have an NVME or SATA implementation. Although to be honest it doesn't have to be the Pi. Any small board that'll run Linux, has at least gigabit ethernet and a fast path to disk will do. At that point it'll be possible to make a ceph cluster with one Pi per disk.
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vetinari 2419 days ago
For some time, I've been thinking of making a ceph cluster out of ODROID-HC1 or 2 (https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two).
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technofiend 2419 days ago
A few years go now Western Digital demonstrated an onboard controller with two 1 GB NICs and a mini linux distribution with a single Ceph OSD installed. Unfortunately it never made it out of the lab. I would gladly pay a $50 premium per device for spinning rust to have that onboard. Perhaps the issue is with NVME-connected devices that could be a much costlier device to build? Or maybe there's no standard for housing network-connected storage devices in a rack?
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