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It would also be very interesting to see how much cheaper and more efficient it would be to use a server built today using a low-power 1U blade with a pair of h
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
It would also be very interesting to see how much cheaper and more efficient it would be to use a server built today using a low-power 1U blade with a pair of high-end SSDs in RAID0 (or maybe 4 in RAID10).
That iSCSI SAN was probably bloody expensive, yet a pair of SSDs today which are orders of magnitude cheaper would run circles around it. OP is storing text documents, so doesn't need a huge disk.
- vidarh 11y agoI priced out a server from our usual vendor. A half-depth 1U server with dual 6Gbps SSDs and a ~50% faster CPU and 16GB of RAM would come out at around 1000euro from them (so about 20% of the price in the article). With a 800GB Intel NVMe PCIe card, it'd come out at about 2000 euro (they didn't have prices for smaller NVMe cards in their quote generator at the moment, but you should be able to shave at least 500euro of that and still get the performance). If you'd go for maximum CPU matching the quoted price instead, you'd easily get 8-16 cores each faster than the old Xeon cores in question depending on CPU model and other specs.