Sorry I don't have hbase specific benchmarks. I think it still operates with mostly streaming reads and writes, but it would probably depend on your specific application.
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:58 AM, John Overman <jbo5...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would recommend Samsung Spinpoint F3 drives, which have slightly higher > ratings than the WD1002FAEX on newegg, and are the fastest 1TB drive for > streaming reads. They're listed as $52.99+shipping ($49.65 for 10 drives) > at CompUPlus.com ( > http://www.compuplus.com/Drives-and-storage/Samsung-1TB-Spinpoint-F3-7200RPM-1138634.html), > and If you contact a sales person, there's a discount for ordering more than > 10. > > Here are some hard drive benchmarks: > > http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-3.5-desktop-hard-drive-charts/benchmarks,50.html > > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Krishna Sankar <ksanka...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> My favorites are the seagate 3.5" drives ST31000340AS & ST31000340NS. >> Cheers >> <k/> >> >> On 1/5/11 Wed Jan 5, 11, "Dieter Reuter" <reuter.die...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >I'm just trying to evaluate HBase/Hadoop on a small cluster. >> > >> >For the very first tests I just set up a cluster of 6 nodes on a single >> >ESXi >> >server, 1x Master/ZK/NN and 5x RS/DN. The setup process was quiet easy >> and >> >straight forward with CDH3b3 on CentOS 5.5. Now I'm able to play around >> >with >> >the basic operation. But for real performance tests I'll have to add fast >> >disks and go for real hardware. >> > >> >From the list I learned, to increase the disk throughput just use more >> >disks/spindles. For this case I'd like to go for real nodes with 4x 1TB >> >disks per node. I think 2TB disks are slower, and I really don't need 8TB >> >per node for my POC. For now I just would select standard 7200 SATA disks >> >like WD1003FBYX, WD1002FAEX or similar. >> > >> >But what type of 1TB disk gives me a good performance for a reasonable >> >price? I can't find any recent comparison for the usage pattern with >> >hbase/hadoop. >> > >> >Any recommendations are welcome. >> >Thanks. >> > >> >-- >> >Dieter >> >> >> >
