Hi, I would appreciate any advice ( with arguments , if possible) regarding the best design approach considering below facts
- budget is set to XX amount - goal is to get as much performance / capacity as possible using XX - 4 to 6 servers, DELL R620/R630 with 8 disk slots, 64 G RAM and 8 cores - CEPH usage - mainly provide block device through SCST to VMWare I consider the following options ( if there is one that I miss, please let me know) 1. NVME + NLSAS, OS running on internal SD cards 8 to 1 NVME/rotational drives ratio 2. 2 x write intensive SSD RAID1 + 6 x NLSAS, OS running on a partition of the RAID1 SSD 6 to 1 SSD / rotational drive ratio 3. 2 x write intesive SSD + 6 x NLSAS, OS on SD card 3 to 1 SSD / rotationl ratio 4. "regular" SSD , OS on SD card For the drives, I have the following 'regular" SSD Intel DC S4500 ( 900$) or Micron 5100 PRO ( 1100$) or SM863a (1300$) NLSAS Segate ST2000NX0403 Still debating the model for SSD write intensive Models that I am considering HGST Ultrastar SS300 HUSMM3240ASS200 ( 1200$) SDLTMDKW- 200G-5CA1 ( 1600$) Still debating on NVME between Intel and Samsung Many thanks for any/all advice Steven
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