What would be a good hard drive for a 7 node cluster which is targeted to run a mix of IO and CPU intensive Hadoop workloads? We are looking for around 1 TB of storage on each node distributed amongst 4 or 5 disks. So either 250GB * 4 disks or 160GB * 5 disks. Also it should be less than 100$ each ;)
I looked at HDD benchmark comparisons on tomshardware, storagereview etc. Got overwhelmed with the # of benchmarks and different aspects of HDD performance. Appreciate your help on this. -Shrinivas
