More Power To Us Part 5: A little speed boost
October 11th, 2007 at 3:35 pm by zack
If you’ve read the other articles in the More Power To Us series, you know that the SnapStream co-location facility has a good amount of drive space.
Sometimes, however, it’s not size that matters. In this case, we’re upgrading our backend DB server with some faster (and slightly larger) disks.
For your viewing pleasure….
A case of 15,000 RPM 36gb SCSI U320 Disks
Best part about it, the entire box cost around $600 (including buying a number of spares. Since we really don’t need a huge about of raw space, we could go back a generation or two in terms of size and still get the speed we need. I’ll get a number on transfer rates when we install it, but I expect it to be between ridiculous and ludicrous.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Can you tell us where you bought a whole box of HD’s from? May be useful to know in the future.
October 12th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Free plug for CompuVest.
http://www.compuvest.com
I love that place.
Gotten things from them in the past when an older disk failed and needed an exact replacement.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Seagate Cheetah’s I presume?? Got several of those raid’ed and running my desktop. They’re blazin’! Oh yeah plus they’re more reliable than IDE drives.
November 8th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
We’re going to have to go right to… ludicrous speed!