I’m sure there are data science/center people that can appreciate this. For me all I’m thinking is how hot it runs and how much I wish soon 20TB SSDs would be priced like HDDs
Agreed. I’d happily settle for 1GB/s, maybe even less, if I could get the random seek times, power usage, durability, and density of SSDs without paying through the nose.
Yeah but 15 GB/s is 120 gbit. Your storage nodes are going to need more than 2x800gbit if you want to take advantage of the bandwidth once you start putting more than 14 drives in. Also, those 14 drives probably won’t have more than 30M iops. Your typical 2U storage node is going to have something like 24 drives, so you’ll probably be bottlenecked by bandwidth or iops no matter if you put in 15GB/s drives or 7GB/s drives.
Maybe it makes sense these days, I haven’t seen any big storage servers myself, I’m usually working with cloud or lab environments.
I work in bioinformatics. The faster the hard drive the better! Some of my recent jobs were running some poorly optimized code and would turn 1tb of data into 10tb of output. So painful to run with 36 replicates.
I’m sure there are data science/center people that can appreciate this. For me all I’m thinking is how hot it runs and how much I wish soon 20TB SSDs would be priced like HDDs
Agreed. I’d happily settle for 1GB/s, maybe even less, if I could get the random seek times, power usage, durability, and density of SSDs without paying through the nose.
nah datacenters care more about capacity or iops, throughput is meaningless, since you’ll always be bottlenecked by network
Not necessarily if you run workloads within the datacenter? Surely that’s not that rare, even if they’re mostly for hosting web services.
Yeah but 15 GB/s is 120 gbit. Your storage nodes are going to need more than 2x800gbit if you want to take advantage of the bandwidth once you start putting more than 14 drives in. Also, those 14 drives probably won’t have more than 30M iops. Your typical 2U storage node is going to have something like 24 drives, so you’ll probably be bottlenecked by bandwidth or iops no matter if you put in 15GB/s drives or 7GB/s drives.
Maybe it makes sense these days, I haven’t seen any big storage servers myself, I’m usually working with cloud or lab environments.
Science stuff though …
I work in bioinformatics. The faster the hard drive the better! Some of my recent jobs were running some poorly optimized code and would turn 1tb of data into 10tb of output. So painful to run with 36 replicates.
Are you hiring ^^ ?
Love that kind if stuff.