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Out of curiosity, how much disk space does your index currently use, and what's the storage hardware (SSD or spinning rust)?
by Nextgrid 5y ago
Out of curiosity, how much disk space does your index currently use, and what's the storage hardware (SSD or spinning rust)?
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThe reverse index is 180 Gb, on an SSD. I do think using SSDs are a major part of why this is possible on consumer hardware. I'd need a lot of spinning rust to get the sub-100ms response times I can get it to when the index is warmed up. Should be said I do wear through this SSD at a pretty alarming rate. I'm at 193 TBW on this disk since I started using it as an index less than a year ago. I do have a bunch of mechanical drives I use for archiving and as intermediate working areas as well, but the index itself is on an SSD.
- Nextgrid 5y agoThanks - I'd be keen to try this at some point, if anything just for personal usage. I've got more than enough hardware CPU & RAM-wise, if all it takes is getting a few TBs worth of solid-state storage it seems like a no-brainer.