How expensive is your kWh?
What about noise? What about cooling in summer?
Your SAS drives will fail, so make sure you have spares.
I personally would look into suitable used Lenovo TinyPCs and a passively cooled switch to cluster them.
Consider your nodes expendable. Cluster storage at node scale rather than RAID.
How expensive is your kWh? What about noise? What about cooling in summer? Your SAS drives will fail, so make sure you have spares.
I personally would look into suitable used Lenovo TinyPCs and a passively cooled switch to cluster them. Consider your nodes expendable. Cluster storage at node scale rather than RAID.