Thanks much to all who shared their inputs. This really helps. It would be nice to have a wiki page collecting all this good information. I will check with that. We are definitely going with large capacity disks (>= 1TB).
-Shrinivas On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > The original poster also seemed somewhat interested in disk bandwidth. > > That is facilitated by having more than on disk in the box. > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Michael Segel <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Since the OP believes that their requirement is 1TB per node... a single > > 2TB would be the best choice. It allows for additional space and you > really > > shouldn't be too worried about disk i/o being your bottleneck. >
