[SAC] PSC Vote: Buy disks for osgeo8 and osgeo9 - MOTION PASSED

Thanks all.

-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler@osgeo.org]
Sent: Monday, October 3, 2022 2:35 PM
To: Alex Mandel <tech@wildintellect.com>; System Administration Committee
Discussion/OSGeo <sac@lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us>
Subject: Re: [SAC] PSC Vote: Buy disks for osgeo8 and osgeo9

Full trust, +1 Markus

On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 12:48 AM Alex Mandel <tech_dev@wildintellect.com>
wrote:
>
> I suppose at that price for 2x drives to try that's fine.
>
> +1 Alex
>
>
>
> On 9/30/22 16:55, Regina Obe wrote:
> > The disks on osgeo8 (2 are failing)
> >
> > And the disks on osgeo9 (are only 70 GB in size each)
> >
> > Both servers currently have 8 drives
> >
> > I've been reviewing a lot of the options and best I think is
> >
> > https://www.ebay.com/itm/224083213581
> >
> > As I have detailed here - https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/2591
> >
> > My proposal is to buy 4 of these 1 1.2TB 10K SAS 2.5" 6G Server
> > Hard Drives.
> >
> > Which are stated to be compatible with our server HP DL360 G6.
> > They are refurbished and not HP brand, thus much cheaper than new
drives.
> > But newer HP drives would be a waste of money as they are in the
> > $300-$600 range for each server and these are old servers.
> >
> > So cost would be
> >
> > $33*4 = $132
> >
> > 2 will go into osgeo8
> >
> > and remaining 2 will go into osgeo9
> >
> > If these work fine after a month or so then we get 12 more for an
> > additional $396.
> >
> > I have dismissed SSD drives since that would require SATA.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Also would like to hear if anyone else has opinions on matter since
> > I'm not that knowledgeable about hardware.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Regina
> >
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