ServerWatch: Pogo Linux StorageWare 3800: An Affordable Terabyte

“Rackmount servers are relatively common, and even servers
preconfigured for Linux are easy to find today. So how does Pogo
Linux distuinguish its rack-mount StorageWare 3800 from the rest of
the crowd? By combining an affordable price with an expandable
platform.

“The Pogo Linux StorageWare 3800 has the usual basics: a dual
processor Xeon Super Micro X5DP8-GL motherboard with up to eight GB
of RAM, a 40G boot disk, Red Hat Linux 8.0, two built-in 10/100
Ethernet connections, and dual power supplies in a 3u chassis. But
it also has something unusual–in addition to the boot drive, the
3800 has eight 203.9G ATA hard drives attached to a 3Ware RAID
controller in a RAID5 configuration, with a formatted capacity of a
little over 1.2 terabytes (1.4 TB raw).

“With dual 2.4 GHz Xeons, two GB of RAM as tested, and 1.2 TB of
storage, this system provides ample horsepower for all but the
largest database applications, and includes both MySQL and
PostgreSQL servers as well. Having over a terabyte in a 3u, $7,400
server is incredible, the more so recalling a one-terabyte storage
system I built in 1996 that occupied three 84″ racks and cost about
$400,000, with less performance than the 3800…”

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