Re: question on capacity planning

2011-07-14 Thread Sameer Farooqui
So, in our experience, the amount of storage overhead is much higher. If you plan on storing 120TB of data, you will want to expect storing 250 TB of data on disk after the data over head. And then since you have to leave 50% of storage space free for compaction, you're looking at needing about

question on capacity planning

2011-06-29 Thread Jacob, Arun
if I'm planning to store 20TB of new data per week, and expire all data every 2 weeks, with a replication factor of 3, do I only need approximately 120 TB of disk? I'm going to use ttl in my column values to automatically expire data. Or would I need more capacity to handle sstable merges?

Re: question on capacity planning

2011-06-29 Thread Ryan King
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Jacob, Arun arun.ja...@disney.com wrote: if I'm planning to store 20TB of new data per week, and expire all data every 2 weeks, with a replication factor of 3, do I only need approximately 120 TB of disk? I'm going to use ttl in my column values to automatically