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Another way of looking into this, hopefully related to topic, is that when provider have the high io, its indicative that it is more likely they own and control hardware, and that they are more serious in the longevity of providing service? i'm assuming its more troublesome to put together the sauce to have good io service.
That's funny because I know providers with 700mb/s+ IO :P
It's like @miTgiB said, it's too cheap to set up a RAID, so you really won't get much more storage if any. RAID controller only costs once until God forbid it goes out. Most providers here are using SATA drives on hardware RAID10 from what I see. By no means do I think we're losing out on storage with places like BuyVM and Hostigation (admittedly my two preferred providers aside from RamNode, speaking as a customer not as a provider). I mean I have 100GB for $10 with Tim. Only way to top that is to get a kimsufi.
I'm holding near 300mb/s on 4 2TB SATA drives on HW RAID10 in Denver right now, so I'm not sure what lowering my I/O speed would do to help boost storage levels. Controller didn't even cost me anything. I guess lower I/O would force me to put less people on a node and therefore increasing allotments, but I don't think it's beneficial to the client if I can't make a node profitable. Unless we're not talking LEB prices.
OAS does 1.5~ GB/s on their test boxes, lol.
But yeah, I do agree. The problem is, people think the higher the number, the better the service - which is true occasionally, but in no way a permanent gauge for the overall service quality.