Friday, August 7, 2020

The start of little big things.

Do to the pandemic I'm stuck at home for the foreseeable future.
Might as well start a new project!

I've decided to build a raspberrypi cluster.

Parts for this project are

1x Raspi 4 4GB $55
6x Raspi 4 8GB $75
6x Seagate BarraCuda 4TB $93
7x Samsung FIT Plus USB 3.1 Flash Drive 128GB $25
7x SanDisk Ultra SDSQUNS-016G-GN3MN 16GB $6
6x X835 SATA HDD board from Geekworm $43
1x NETGEAR 10-Port Gigabit/10G Ethernet Unmanaged Switch (GS110MX) $165

Total $1746, plus miscellaneous (cables, power supplies etc) the whole  things is under $2k.

The cluster in total will have.
28 cores
52 GB ram
896 GB of SSD on usb thumb drives
24 TB of storage on spinning drives

I've even come up with a name for this little beasty.
Let me introduce the jaggerbush!

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