With SSD one drive should be sufficient for both data and commitLogs. Rahul Neelakantan
> On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Steve Robenalt <sroben...@highwire.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We are migrating a small cluster on AWS from instances based on spinning > disks (using instance store) to SSD-backed instances and we're trying to pick > the proper instance type. Some of the recommendations for spinning disks say > to use different drives for log vs data partitions to avoid issues with seek > delays and contention for the disk heads. Since SSDs don't have the same seek > delays, is it still recommended to use 2 SSD drives? Or is one sufficient? > > Thanks, > Steve >