June 19, 2013

Post: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS

… MegaRAID controller with a BBU. These disks currently cost about $400 each, and are roughly half full. (That actually matters — the… comparing apples and oranges no matter what, but put simply, price is in the same order of magnitude, but performance is… circumstances, EBS doesn’t deliver good QoS or a good price-to-performance ratio for the database as compared to a…

Post: FusionIO 320GB MLC benchmarks

… of two cards. This card is also not cheap, the price I can find on dell.com is $6,829.99… was able to get 700 MB/s in sequential reads ( 400 MB/s in random reads) and 500 MB/s for…