https://www.rusinov.ie/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:vladimir.rusinov@gmail.com">Vladimir Rusinov</a> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:19:27 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/en/posts/2021/odyssey-x86-single-board-computer/Vladimir Rusinov<div><p>Shortly after setting-up <a href="/en/posts/2020/setting-up-single-node-kubernetes-cluster/">single-node Kubernetes cluster</a>, <a href="/en/posts/2020/setting-up-single-node-ceph-cluster-for-kubernetes/">single-node Ceph cluster</a> I wanted an actual cluster. I've also noticed that Ceph doesn't actually work all that well: Besides obvious lack of failure tolerance, it didn't seemed to like working on top of just two storage devices of a very different sizes (internal ~300G HDD and 1T USB-HDD). So I've decided to get some more hardware.</p> <p>I live in a small apartment and I don't really have a lot of space. All I have is a small shelf in storage area. Normal desktops and especially rack servers won't fit. They are also noisy, eat a lot of power and produce a lot of heat. Another thing is that I already had two old SATA HDDs lying idle, which I wanted to use, so the new hardware needed SATA support.</p> <p>I found the solution in <a href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-X86J4105800-p-4445.html">Odyssey X86</a> board.</p> <p><a href="/posts/2021/odyssey.jpg"><img src="/posts/2021/odyssey_small.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="/en/posts/2021/odyssey-x86-single-board-computer/">Read more…</a> (4 min remaining to read)</p></div>cephhardwarekubernetesodysseysbc/en/posts/2021/odyssey-x86-single-board-computer/Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:49:00 GMT