[Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 07:28:52AM -0500, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> 
> We also have a strong need for a very fast /tmp local to each
> machine. I put 2 new Samsung SSD drives in a RAID 0, but for long
> sequential data (our situation) the performance was similar to local
> 7,200 RPM drives. They were attached to the motherboard SATA ports -
> would a RAID controller make any difference? Would more drives make
> a difference? Would SAS make a difference? The NAS box is much
> faster, but I don't want to overload the network with all the /tmp
> traffic..

Can you afford to pay more for your /tmp?

LSI and Fusion-IO, among others, offer PCIe-attached SSDs in
capacities up to 2TB with claims of gigabyte-per-second transfer
rates. They are, of course, expensive.

-dsr-