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Datashack is getting some stock back on cheap dedicated servers

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  • @Jeffrey what SSD, SSD with SATA 3 running good potential~500MB/s or an SSD like the oCZ Petrol http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-petrol-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html which on speed tests, barely beats a good 7200 HDD< but IOPS are much faster...

  • My bad, actually my invoice says 146GB SAS, although I remembered during ordering it did say SSD...whatever...it is cheap enough for me

  • @Damian said: Srsly? How often did you have to ask? Do you have a lot of servers with them to leverage something like that?

    I asked for RAID set up during sign up and they emailed me and asked me if Hardware RAID 1 is OK, of course I said yes then :)

  • syamansyaman Member

    I ordered about 24 hours ago and I haven't received mine yet. But my service entry in the customer portal says SAS - not SSD.

  • Guys with all you write im not sure if buy one or not :S.

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  • @martip07 said: Guys with all you write im not sure if buy one or not :S.

    Up to you :) For me it is strictly for personal use (2 Windows virtual environment, 1 with a MS-SQL and 1 with a VB.NET + Other random things for Dev + 2 Linux box) so it does not matter to me whether it is SSD or SAS :)

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  • AmfyAmfy Member

    How fast would the SAS be? 50MB/s? 80MB/s? 120MB/s?

    Does it make any difference if non RAID or HW RAID1? (Only on speed matter)

  • PacketVMPacketVM Member, Host Rep

    @syaman said: I ordered about 24 hours ago and I haven't received mine yet. But my service entry in the customer portal says SAS - not SSD.

    I believe Datashack have a 2 business day set up time so likely to be Monday, if not today. Could always ticket them and ask..

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran
    edited July 2012

    @Amfy said: How fast would the SAS be? 50MB/s? 80MB/s? 120MB/s

    It depends, but I would expect about 80-100 with a single drive.
    Raid 1 is mirroring, it will give a slight delay on write, but will read faster, tho with only 2 drives wont be that obvious.
    I am a bit pessimistic in general.
    M

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  • rm_rm_ IPv6 Advocate, Veteran
    edited July 2012

    146 GB is most likely a server-grade SAS HDD, there are no SSDs with that capacity, as someone correctly noted above. And these HDDs are not that great as far as linear read/write speed is concerned, but they do have a low latency (fast seek rate).

  • debugdebug Member

    When I had my server setup a month ago, it took ~2 business days

  • PatsPats Member
    edited July 2012

    @Amfy said: How fast would the SAS be? 50MB/s? 80MB/s? 120MB/s?

    as per the link by @eastonch which makes some sense to clear the confusion of SAS/SSD

    Style SSD
    SSD Capacity 146GB
    Size 2.5"
    Interface Type SAS
    Speed 10000rpm
    Cache 6GB
    Model Number 42D0617
    Capacity 146GB
    Scope Server

    hmm... speed looks good.. comments??

  • DamianDamian Member

    FWIW, That's an IBM part number

  • PatsPats Member

    @Damian said: That's an IBM part number

    yea... noticed the picture there also shows blue IBM logo, Made in Phillipines

  • PatsPats Member

    noone got the box yet?

  • Well its been less than 2 days Pats.

  • How would you guys rate DataShack's network? I'm thinking about getting one for a game server and I'm wondering about the ping, and route's it takes.

  • @Insidiea said: How would you guys rate DataShack's network? I'm thinking about getting one for a game server and I'm wondering about the ping, and route's it takes.

    6/10.

  • earlearl Member

    Really tempted to get this.. but not sure what to use it for, seem like an awesome deal to get an HP blade for $35!! but then again all my VPS's combined don't even come close to the price of one dedi..

    Does anybody know how much they charge to reload the OS?

  • @earl said: Does anybody know how much they charge to reload the OS?

    I know you get one free a month, but not sure after that

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  • @Spencer @Earl Usually free if you have a reason and there is no limit, but do not take advantage.

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  • earlearl Member

    I'm thinking about signing up with the base 4gb of ram but I wonder If i decide to upgrade the ram later on will they charge me a setup fee?

  • subigosubigo Member

    @earl said: I'm thinking about signing up with the base 4gb of ram but I wonder If i decide to upgrade the ram later on will they charge me a setup fee?

    No.

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  • earlearl Member

    can you request proxmox? or do you have to install debian then install proxmox I don't see a proxmox image

  • You have to install Proxmox yourself, they are an unmanaged provider.

  • earlearl Member

    @MrLadoodle said: You have to install Proxmox yourself, they are an unmanaged provider.

    I was hoping they can install proxmox the bare-metal version instead of installing it on top of a debian installation

  • @earl Oh they can install an ISO

  • Just a heads-up, running Minstall's clean-packages hosed my install and now I've gotta request an OS reinstall.

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  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited July 2012

    @Satellite Did you disconnect SSH before installing a new SSH server? Hate to lose connection at that moment. Also when did you order the system? Curious on reality of setup time vs claimed.

  • Nope, I definitely had a replacement SSH up. However, I think the clean-packages commands removes some packages that are required on boot-up, so when it reboots it can't boot into Debian.

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