[Beowulf] noobs: what comes next?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 06:24:33PM -0500, Geoff Jacobs wrote:

> Transfer speed gets a speed bump with 10k Velociraptors, but it's not

Velociraptors are mostly for high-IOPS applications, they're not
that fast.

http://www.storagereview.net/php/benchmark/suite_v4.php?typeID=10&testbedID=4&osID=6&raidconfigID=1&numDrives=1&devID_0=321&devID_1=358&devID_2=360&devID_3=354&devCnt=4

> that huge a bump. You're better off buying cheap WD Caviar Greens and
> spending the difference on RAM. Please note, RAID is not a backup
> method, it's to increase the resiliency of the filesystem.

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