Disk is cheap

[Alan Johnson]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

> I'm constantly running up against users saying disk is cheap.  They can buy
> a 1 TB USB drive for $100ish ( $0.10/GB) and wonder why the file server has
> only 200 GB for all 250 users.
>

So, you just tell them to go get a couple and let you know how it works out,
right?  I'm about to order one of these sweet little ditties (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132016&cm_re=jbod-_-16-132-016-_-Product)
to put 8 1TB WD Greens in a raid 5, but that's mostly for backups and some
low traffic VMs like a repos mirror.  Most access will be ioniced to boot.
I'm pretty much demanding solid state for anything with a significant TPS
report (you get the memo about the new cover sheets for those?).

In any case, it has already proven to be a huge improvement over the 4-drive
ReadyNAS boxes I just replaced with the 4 disk setup that is going to grow
into this JBOD.  The ReadyNASs were processor bound by nfsd, if you can
imagine a processor that slow.  Blah!
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