It's actually very much over built. I had the budget, so I built for growth. This setup should easily last us through this year, assuming 4x growth over last

It's actually very much over built. I had the budget, so I built for growth. This setup should easily last us through this year, assuming 4x growth over last year. I am actually putting together another similarly spec'd machine with 384gb of ram (why not, it's cheap) because the current secondary is on 15k disks with only 24gb of ram. Still more than enough to handle the load through this last year, but probably not this coming year, at least without a bunch more ram. In regards to actual iops, not sure what this thing can peak at off the top of my head, but we'll easily be doing 100 queries a second this year, with a considerable portion of those queries pulling out ~1mb documents. Playing it conservative, so I am moving towards gzipping those large documents (never need to access anything but the full data, > 90% of accesses are directly served to clients that can handle inflating the data). For now they will stay in mongo, but I am building out an evaluation of using a flat file structure and just letting nginx pass them out.