… (just as we usually configure PowerEdge 2950) with 128GB of RAM for about $16000. This means talking to Dell Sales rep…
Post: RAID and Scale Out Discussions
June 12, 2007 By 3 Comments
… for the sake of BBU. As Jeremy mentioned RAID is cheap these days if you buy right one and can offer… I see people using 2*2 Opterons with 32GB of RAM and 10-14 hard drives. Both solutions have comparable price… vendors. Dell for example for some reason failed to provide cheap 32GB of memory option even with their new Opteron servers…
Post: Should I buy a Fast SSD or more memory?
April 8, 2010 By 10 Comments
… to see what room we now have to scale up – cheap memory, fast storage, better power efficiency. There certainly are… where your C point is when you have 32GB of RAM and 100GB of data. Than it gets interesting: Can you easily add another 32G RAM (are your memory slots already filled?) Does your budget allow…
Comment: FlashCache: tpcc workload with FusionIO card as cache
June 4, 2010 By 20 Comments
… depending on your workload you my be able to get cheap gains using SSD disks rather than cards. The other benefit… the longer warmup will take. Also no matter how much RAM you have you still have to do writes which can…
Post: "Shard early, shard often"
November 16, 2009 By 6 Comments
… to explain that hardware advances such as 128G of RAM being so cheap is changing the point at which you need to…
Comment: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – The questions
October 18, 2009 By 36 Comments
… upgrades went against that it would be a bit pointless. RAM is cheap and disk operations can still be pretty fast (all…
Comment: When is it a time to upgrade memory ?
September 17, 2008 By 11 Comments
…’s why we read carefully your blog daily! 
) => RAM upgrade is a cheap, fast and efficient solution… – Fortune 500: external consultant doing…
Comment: The #1 mistake hosting providers make for MySQL servers
July 25, 2008 By 30 Comments
…-bit OS for machines (including VM) with more than 4GB RAM doesn’t make sense. OTOH, there are significant memory usage…-bytes instead of 8-bytes) installing 32-bit OS for cheap hosting plans, especially VPS (with less than 2GB allocated) running…
