Re: how to...accelarate randon access to millions of images?

2008-03-16 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Sascha Ottolski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The challenge is to server 20+ million image files, I guess with up to 1500 req/sec at peak. A modern disk drive can service 100 random IOPS (@ 10ms/seek, that's reasonable). Without any caching, you'd need 15 disks to

Re: how to...accelarate randon access to millions of images?

2008-03-16 Thread Michael S. Fischer
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Michael S. Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why I'm having such a problem with this. Sigh! I think I got it right this time. If I were designing such a service, my choices would be: Corrections: (1) 4 machines, each with 4-disk RAID 0