Thank you very much Strahil, very helpful. As always. So I would equip the
3rd server and alocate one small ( 120 - 240gb) consumer grade ssd for each
of the gluster volume, and at volume creation, to specify the small ssds as
the 3rd brick.
Do it make sense ?
Thank you !

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 18:10 Strahil <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think 2 small ssds (raid 1 mdadm) can do the job better as ssds have
> lower latencies .You can use them both for OS (minimum needed is 60 GB) and
> the rest will be plenty for an arbiter.
> By the way, if you plan using gluster snapshots - use thin LVM for the
> brick.
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
> On Apr 24, 2019 16:20, Leo David <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> I need to look into adding some enterprise grade sas disks ( both ssd
> and spinning  ),  and since the prices are not too low,  I would like to
> benefit of replica 3 arbitrated.
> Therefore,  I intend to buy some smaller disks for use them as arbiter
> brick.
> My question is, what performance ( regarding iops,  througput ) the
> arbiter disks need to be. Should they be at least the same as the real data
> disks ?
> Knowing that they only keep metadata, I am thinking that will not be so
> much pressure on the arbiters.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thank you !
>
>
> --
> Best regards, Leo David
>
>
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