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Needing feedback on our proposed Block Storage, "BuyVM Slabs" ( $5 per 1TB)!

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    I've fiddled with the idea of using different CPUs but people really want to have a minimum of 3.5Ghz.

    Francisco

  • @Francisco said:
    I've fiddled with the idea of using different CPUs but people really want to have a minimum of 3.5Ghz.

    Francisco

    Just do like HVH and make it aggregate.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @WSS said:

    @Francisco said:
    I've fiddled with the idea of using different CPUs but people really want to have a minimum of 3.5Ghz.

    Francisco

    Just do like HVH and make it aggregate.

    Jesus Christ.

    Francisco

  • @Francisco said:
    Jesus Christ.

    Francisco

    You may call me WSS.

    WSS

  • oh my cat!

  • I currently have roughly 30TB of raided storage. $5/TB seems like a great price for attached storage, it puts it in line with an OVH storage server or a WebNX large storage server.

    So the question comes to performance. You said 100MBps/100IOPS per volume, does that scale with size?

    What I mean is; would a 5TB volume get more performance or would you have to do 5x1TB to get more?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @HackedServer said:
    I currently have roughly 30TB of raided storage. $5/TB seems like a great price for attached storage, it puts it in line with an OVH storage server or a WebNX large storage server.

    So the question comes to performance. You said 100MBps/100IOPS per volume, does that scale with size?

    What I mean is; would a 5TB volume get more performance or would you have to do 5x1TB to get more?

    I want to do that long term but haven't decided for sure what the break points would be.

    We'll see how the beta goes :)

    Francisco

  • I like 1TB for $5. Would there be some sort of redundancy at the disk level?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @Microlinux said:
    I like 1TB for $5. Would there be some sort of redundancy at the disk level?

    RAID6 at minimum, RAID10 more likely.

    Francisco

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  • Probably would grab a 1TB to go with slice. But I echo pleas to start at 0.5

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @caracal said:
    Probably would grab a 1TB to go with slice. But I echo pleas to start at 0.5

    I'll see how things go.

    I wanted to hit $3/TB but wasn't able to quite get there.

    Francisco

  • yes please

  • What does 100mbps mean? That's the transfer speed between the slab and its attached vps? That issue had slipped past me earlier. I do think that slow speed is a drawback, given that it's over a short range LAN.

  • @Francisco said:
    I wanted to hit $3/TB but wasn't able to quite get there.

    on 2year prepays maybe.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @willie said:
    What does 100mbps mean? That's the transfer speed between the slab and its attached vps? That issue had slipped past me earlier. I do think that slow speed is a drawback, given that it's over a short range LAN.

    No, that's VPS<>World.

    Each VPS node will have a 10Gbit link to the storage fabric, dedicated to just storage work.

    Francisco

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @vimalware said:

    @Francisco said:
    I wanted to hit $3/TB but wasn't able to quite get there.

    on 2year prepays maybe.

    Not sure I'd have many people wanting to bite at that with a Slice on top. The cheapest setup would be $150/2y for a 1GB slice and 1TB storage.

    Francisco

  • williewillie Member
    edited November 2017

    Francisco said: The cheapest setup would be $150/2y for a 1GB slice and 1TB storage.

    That is interesting. It's $6.5/TB/mo including the slice, vs. $8.5 month-to-month. With 2TB it's $4.75/TB/mo which is official cheap storage range (under $5/TB). Month-to-month never reaches that level, even with 16TB ($5.22/TB/mo). I could see myself going for the 2 TB, 2 year option if it was available. But $3/TB sounds underwater cost-wise if you use raid 10.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    willie said: But $3/TB sounds underwater cost-wise if you use raid 10.

    It would be but that's why we have testing going on :) While my caching results look very promising, I haven't made it face the torture test that is LE customers.

    Even at $5/TB, I think it's very affordable storage, especially from someone that isn't trying to make next months rent.

    Francisco

  • Francisco said: While my caching results look very promising

    What RAID controller will you use? I'm curious about the durability of the controller, fail rates, etc

  • Want! Filled out the form. :)

  • Hmm already been considering using buyvm for a project and this could push me over the edge!

  • Would definitely pick one up if it came to Lux :-)

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @jiggawattz said:

    Francisco said: While my caching results look very promising

    What RAID controller will you use? I'm curious about the durability of the controller, fail rates, etc

    I haven't hard decided on that, that's part of what the beta is. What options we're considering though will stay within the select few working on said project.

    @lurch said:
    Hmm already been considering using buyvm for a project and this could push me over the edge!

    Almost there~

    Francisco

  • @Francisco said:

    Almost there~

    Damn you waves fist I'm already chaneling funds for BF deals. If you are doing offers I will host it with you rather than my current provider.

  • edited November 2017

    [Francisco said]

    Not sure I'd have many people wanting to bite at that with a Slice on top. The cheapest setup would be $150/2y for a 1GB slice and 1TB storage.

    Francisco

    To me, you're one of the few providers I would do a multi year deal with, since I know you'll be around. I'd bite on the 2TB multi year deal for sure.

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  • msg7086msg7086 Member
    edited November 2017

    I'd also love to see a smaller but faster option. For example, a 200GB slab with 400iops would be very helpful for those (like me?) running MySQL replication. We have a pretty busy database and usually offsite HDD can't even catch up in realtime. We are currently using ramnode ssd-cached, very reliable but low spec and not quite good for dumping huge database etc. We would love to try somewhere different.

    EDIT: Also if you are considering to ban torrenting from that block storage?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Are the bigger KVM slices not possible? Too costly?

    Francisco

  • @Francisco said:
    Are the bigger KVM slices not possible? Too costly?

    Francisco

    Yea it's a 30GB database, including relay log and some buffers I'd like to have at least 100GB space around, and that pushes the monthly cost too high.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @msg7086 said:

    @Francisco said:
    Are the bigger KVM slices not possible? Too costly?

    Francisco

    Yea it's a 30GB database, including relay log and some buffers I'd like to have at least 100GB space around, and that pushes the monthly cost too high.

    You'd be $15.00/month right now, I can spot the 20GB difference.

    Francisco

  • @Francisco said:

    You'd be $15.00/month right now, I can spot the 20GB difference.

    Francisco

    That's why we are on ramnode ssd-cache line, which is $8/qtr for 120GB.

    And that's why I'm interested in slice+slab which is not supposed to bring the cost too high.

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