…you would like to get RAID just for the sake of BBU. As Jeremy mentioned RAID is cheap these days if…Consulting I often ask how large system is needs to growth and how much effort people would like to spend on …see people using 2*2 Opterons with 32GB of RAM and 10-14 hard drives. Both solutions have …
Comment: FlashCache: tpcc workload with FusionIO card as cache
June 4, 2010 By 20 Comments
… getting say 320GB FusionIO card for cache may be quite a gain. Also depending on your workload you my be able to get cheap… longer warmup will take. Also no matter how much RAM you have you still have to do writes which can be expensive. I think 15K hard drives you’re mentioned are getting…
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… that you will need to eventually shard, is it better to just get it out of the … to create their own tools for shard automation, it’s always easier to propose major changes to how …
