Current Hardware:
- 1x RPi 4 w/ 2GB RAM
- management machine
- influxdb, apcupsd, apt-cacher
- 3x RPi 4 w/ 4GB RAM
- 1x ceph mon/mgr/mds per RPi
- 18x RPi 4 w/ 8GB RAM
- 2 ceph osds per RPi
- 2x Seagate 2TB USB 3.0 HDD per RPi
Current Total Raw Capacity: 65 TiB
The RPi's are all housed in a nine drawer cabinet with rear exhaust fans. Each drawer has an independent 5V 10A power supply. There is a 48-port network switch in the rear of the cabinet to provide the necessary network fabric.
The HDDs are double-stacked five wide to fit 10 HDDs in each drawer along with five RPi 4's. A 2" x 7" x 1/8" aluminum bar is sandwiched between the drives for heat dissipation. Each drawer has a custom 5-port USB power fanout board to power the RPi's. The RPi's have the USB PMIC bypassed with a jumper wire to power the HDDs since the 1.2A current limit is insufficient to spin up both drives.
Hello--thanks for posting this project, very cool! Like the custom power distribution board and actually ordered several of them. Personally am not familiar with designing circuit boards, can you provide any recommended links (or describe) this custom board? Thinking that as USB Type A is phased out that redesigning to USB-C for any future boards would be worthwhile. Similarly, would look into making larger boards (i.e. 10 ports using LRS-100-5).