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> most ppl will never need more than 100k IOPs, let alone 500k+ These types of statements are always false. If there is anything the computing industry has tau
by AlfonsoP 12y ago
> most ppl will never need more than 100k IOPs, let alone 500k+
These types of statements are always false. If there is anything the computing industry has taught us is that people always need more resources. Always.
- tgeek 12y agoI sincerely hope you are joking here.
- AlfonsoP 12y agoI sincerely hope YOU are joking, right? I can think of many examples why even small businesses need more than 100k IOPS. Case in point: 5 years ago I did consulting work for an email marketing company that was generating a daily report on a database of about 1TB. The report took 10+ hours to generate due to the SQL queries aggregating data from joined tables in more or less random patterns. I upgraded their DB server from a 2-way RAID0 on 15kRPM HDD (about 500 IOPS) to a single SSD (20k IOPS), and it cut down report generation time to 15 minutes. 4 years later their database has continued growing and generation took 1 hour. They called me up again, I upgraded them to a 4-way SSD-based RAID5 (I benchmarked 250k IOPS) and again it cut down report generation to 6-8 minutes. This was a small company: a dozen marketers, 1 software guy.