<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Joe Topjian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe.topjian@cybera.ca" target="_blank">joe.topjian@cybera.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you can afford it, look at the r720xd. It's a monster in terms of how much storage and RAM it can support. You can purchase a "lightly" configured one and upgrade later. For example, purchase it with two internal 2.5" drives for the OS and four 3.5" drives for storage (ceph or whatever you decide to go with). It can handle an addition eight 3.5" drives for later expansion</blockquote>
</div><br>I thought that was what was great about the R515's(2x 2.5" flex drive bays and 12x 3.5" External Hot Swap)... they carry the same drive counts as the R720xd's but.. online run ~$2300 cheaper when configured similarly. Had read that DreamHost uses them for their Ceph Cluster as well... figured that was the reason.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks much for the replies!</div></div>