You can get crucial m4 512 for $395 on amazon.com. ocz are $450. http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-512GB-2-5-Inch-Solid-CT512M4SSD2/dp/B004W2JL3Y
I don't know if you can get these out of the USA or not (you are out of USA right?) wes On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Paul Peregud <[email protected]> wrote: > My first post to the list. > > I want to store 20M of bounded FIFO queues (each queue has at most 50 > items, 1KB each). Distribution: 80% of updates at 20% of queues. > > Insertion rate: at most 5K per second, random; 50M per day. > Reading rate: at most 10K per second, each read reads all 50 items. > Once inserted items are not updated. Oldest at each queue is discarded so > that queue length <= 50. > > How much hardware I might need? From my calculations I need at least 1000 > HDDs assuming that seek time is at 7ms (high end). And that is unreal > number. > > For this type of load (small random reads/writes) SSD seems to be a > perfect match. > > I'm looking at the following configuration: > 5 of OCZ 512GB Vertex 4 drives at 5 64GB RAM boxes. > Riak cluster with N=3. > > I'm going for cheaper drives because I assume that Riak will allow me to > replace a node if one of disks suddenly dies. > > How crazy is this configuration? > > -- > Best regards, > Paul Peregud > +48602112091 > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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