title: Installing Hadoop over 5 hard drives on a desktop
body: <p>I have been working with installing Hadoop. I followed some instruction on a Udemy course, and I installed Hadoop on pseudo distributed mode, on my laptop. It was fairly straightforward. </p>
  
  <p>After that, I started to wonder if I could set up Hadoop on a desktop computer. So went out and bought an empty case and put in a 64 bit, 8 core AMD processor, along with a 50GB SSD hard drive and 4 inexpensive 500GB hard drives. I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the SSD drive, and put virtual machines on the other drives.</p>
  
  <p>I'm envisioning using my SSD as the master and using my 4 hard drives as nodes. Again, everything is living in the same case.</p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, and I've been searching everywhere, and I can't find any tutorials, guides, books, etc, that describe setting up Hadoop in this manner. It seems like most everything I've found that details installation of Hadoop is either a simple pseudo distributed setup (which I've already done), or else the instructions jump straight to large scale commercial applications. I'm still learning the basics, clearly, but I'd like to play in this sort-of in between place.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone done this before, and/or come across any documentation / tutorials / etc that describe how to set Hadoop up in this way? Many thanks in advance for the help.</p>