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@Joseph Looking Glass: https://lg-ro-or.host-c.com Event Horizon NX-01 - Storage 1 TB 1 vCPU Xeon Scale Gen 2 2 GB DDR4 RAM 20 GB NVME Boot Drive 1 TB HDD Storage Add-on (Raid 60) 1K IOPS @ 4K and up to 1 GBPS RW 1 Dedicated IPV4 IP 1 Dedicated /…

in Cheapest set-it-and-forget-it storage Comment by host_c March 2

(Quote) Feel free to tag me next time, I have nothing against it :3 @Neoon THX on the honest words, and I really mean it <3 As a small note if I may: We don't drop everything in Frankfurt, we dump everything in Frankfurt. =) =) Felt the …

in Cheapest set-it-and-forget-it storage Comment by host_c March 2

(Quote) We did start out the same in this case. And yes, It s much more "smart" that way, you only deal with 1 or 2 large storage units. - that is a big plus. I also agree that it is stable, till one day it is not. Furthermore, if you do …

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 28

(Quote) ISCSI writes by default are synchronous/SYNC, you most probably mounted NFS ASYNC, hence the 3-7X difference, that slow performance over ISCSI is the real performance of your raid array sincerely ( I presume 4 disks? ) , ASYNC is RAM CACHED,…

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 28

@havoc I have played with 2x 24 SSD ( 128 to 256 GB ) in DELL MD1220 + Optane or NVME as chache, 256 GB RAM, high freq CPU and whatever you can imagine you can tweak in zfs. Used Debian, Ubuntu, Freenas, TrueNAS Core/Scale. same for 12 or 24HDD i…

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 28

I did not see that coming........

in California decides that account creation - including Linux - needs age verification Comment by host_c February 28

(Quote) Even if it went 100X =) =) Yet, for the sake of this discussion, I will provision a 24 bay large HW raid 10 array backed by large controller cache in ~2 weeks and run some tests. It might behave like a SSD platform, but never as a NVME. …

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 28

(Quote) Still better the Import TAX + 21% VAT at the second it enters the country. So, it can be worse for some on the other part of the globe, don't forget that =)

in Poll: hdd redundancy Comment by host_c February 27

Spinning Rust cannot keep up with Flash based storage @ 4K , not even in higher numbers. ( below Raid10 12 bay node ) Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6248 CPU @ 2.50GHzCPU cores : 80 @ 2500.000 MHzAES-NI : ✔ EnabledVM-x/AMD-V : ✔ EnabledRAM…

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 26

(Quote) =) =) =) Nice, I called them hiccups, but hallucinations has a more nicer sound to it. I think I will borrow this =) Mostly ChatGPT.

in Which AI tool have you been using the most lately? Comment by host_c February 26

(Quote) Sadly yes.... I did not even mention that for those that have employees, all those fellas, will want a raise in 2026 as....... Boss shit is expensive, I need more. - and the fella is right, so that increase will add to monthly expenses of …

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 26

@Chievo is right, we need 6-12 moths to say something, for now, market is as stable as BTC, LTC, XMR or whatever alse cryptocurrency - in other words, too damn volatile. why? because suppliers also smell blood and wish to make a buck on this, good f…

in Do you think we will see a return to SSD/NVMe cached HDD in the LE* world? Comment by host_c February 26

@AnthonySmith Make this a "sticky" thread, so it will not end up on page 2, 3 or other, then no on will see it.

in $7 ... part 2, with an actual Poll !! (Re-post, Sorry) - Have your say. Comment by host_c February 25

(Quote) Well, true also, I will not argue on that, yet, LES specific SKU would push the forum UP. Premium SKU + Promo code will turn you int a marketplace. None of them is wrong, it all depends on what the bigger picture is. I can vouch that to cre…

in $7 ... part 2, with an actual Poll !! (Re-post, Sorry) - Have your say. Comment by host_c February 25

So we have 3 tiers: * The basic 7 USD / Month for regular offers that is not getting changed - fine, nothing against it * The LES ONLY 15 USD / Year for LES only - nice, fine, go for it * The Unlimited Value / Month ( I will call it Premium ) - now…

in $7 ... part 2, with an actual Poll !! (Re-post, Sorry) - Have your say. Comment by host_c February 25

@Falzo I do agree with you on some aspects, yet let me provide my insight on the matter ( this is pure speculation, as I do not have any insights on OVH or other's books ) At hyper-Scale ROI is not buy HW -> amortize 5 years -> trash it to e…

in Hetzner price increase now... Comment by host_c February 24

(Quote) =) =) =) I like you =) If it makes you any better, ~1 decade ago I started with storage systems for backup to customers. ( as by that time I left the Corporate world ) My first "storage" server that had ECC Memory was a HP Mi…

in Poll: hdd redundancy Comment by host_c February 24

(Quote) I agree that it might be 12 to 24 moths, I would not cross 24 months. I am confident nether does OVH or any other large size operator. At that scale, no one burns $$ on hardware that get's devalued to nothing in 5 years, it just does not fi…

in Hetzner price increase now... Comment by host_c February 23

(Quote) On today prices of DDR5???? wtf???? are you sure it is even ECC??? are you out of your mind? =) =) :p (Quote) In a 4 BAY setup, you really do not wish to do parity RAID regardless if it is HW or SW, unless you do only file archiving. Fo…

in Poll: hdd redundancy Comment by host_c February 23

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