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Let's hold a little competition and see how long it takes before someone setups a springhost on that machine.
I say give it 2-3 weeks.
Nevertheless neat machine!
That's quite nice for 13/15,5€
@Freek a springhost could do it without RAID1, why bother with RAID
But maybe they can set it up as RAID0 to get better benchmarks ;-)
@Freek these are limited to 3 additional IPv4 at 1EUR/IP (and can't buy more).
The offer is much better than the previous one, yeah. Also cheaper than the N2800 I'm paying 14.99 for... but Standard b/w on mine vs 5TB here...
Any chance of a link?
Is this just a sign that they are using even more knackered disks, or do they realize people actually want RAID 1?
I hate this 12 month minimum though...
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@tehdan
Link : http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/bons_plans/index.xml
@ranie thanks. shame as @ztec says about having to pay up-front for a year. I'm assuming no refunds if they kick you out ...
I'm starting to wonder if they plan to get rid of old boxes per month and the specs keeps going up until maybe last year's line? Might be a good idea to hold out ...
The price will change accordingly, even if they will do the last year's line, it won't be for 13 EUR/mo.
feels like they are just throwing excessive stock that is not moving on a 12 year contract. i7(last offer) > e6550 is not really an upgrade, they probably have the box running anyways so whatever that can be converted to $ they go.
@rm_: As long as it falls below 20 euro, I think it's still a good deal in my opinion!
My disks are ancient:
Wow. That's almost 5 years old ... hmm.
No that's 5 years of power on... even worse.
Given the fact that a server is running 24/7 this is probably the same.
Downtime, customer shutting it down for a period of time for whatever reason...them not actually having a customer for the server and it being shutdown.... lots of things can result in the harddisk not running for a period of time.
Ayways. 5 years are awful. Better go with RAID 1.
I am not sure.
There is a certain degree of wear and tear, however, disks that run for so long, if they did, are unlikely to fail too soon.
I still have hard drives that went on 5 years or more and are still functional (tho retired).
I guess mine is erm... new? xD (Kimsufi mKS 2G)
@Maounique yeah, usually if a disk doesn't fail in the first month of use, it will live long.
This is from the current offer with the E6550?
Could you run a dd test?
According to the famous Google whitepaper, drives older than 3 year seems to have a reduced failure rate: http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/it//archive/disk_failures.pdf
Some drives have amazing life spans. I recently discovered a non-raid 2.5'' IBM IDE disk used as boot disk in a 24/7 critical server that was turned on in october 2001. I requested the replacement with a SSD. Amazingly, the company that does the maintenance on the system is reluctant because "SSD is not a proven technology" and they rather want to exchange it with another refurbished 2001-era disk. According to them, SSD is worse than a >100K hours mechanical disk drive; they have even older IBM disks still on service on other customers. They are a well-known worldwide company, but they are mad.
Oldest drives we have are 2 years old, and practicly are like new performance wise.
Could you run a dd test?
Yes, E6550. I've always got new drives with their regular offers. Anyway, dd test:
The good thing about this offer is the e6550 has intel VT
just got one to replace my n2800 mKS 2G
the cpu and raid worth the extra €3.5 for sure
disks quite aged as @vedran
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 33985
# smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep Power_On
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 33985
Nice hdds
I used to put these hdds to soho servers, just immortal
Device Model: Hitachi HDE721050SLA330
@pcan
That is because what they are telling you is true. SSD's are not a proven technology, and the enterprise drives that have been coming out recently are too expensive to justify getting them.
This even applies to laptops..