I agree here with Christopher; A SSD to handle the high IOPS requirements of real time data logging; combined with a scheduled transfer which can "move" the stored data in a linear large block copy operation to ordinary spindles, would be a cost effective hybrid solution.
This of course is assuming the application can handle this separation of data; and I know nothing about Nfsen On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com > wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Joe Loiacono <jloia...@csc.com> wrote: > > Tim Calvin <tcal...@tlsn.net> wrote on 01/16/2013 05:51:11 PM: > > > >> PowerEdge R610 - > >> > >> 2x Intel E5540, 2.53GHz Quad Core Processor > >> > >> 32GB RAM > >> > >> 2x 300gb 10k 2.5" SAS HDD > > > > Since netflow processing is generally I/O bound, you may want to invest > in > > 15K drives. > > I had suggested off-list that perhaps primary storage as SSD was a > better path, is there a reason to not do that? (with some larger > storage on spinning-media for historical storage/query). > >