Bays for days: Intel S2600CP2J meets Supermicro 24-bay SC846
Feb04

Bays for days: Intel S2600CP2J meets Supermicro 24-bay SC846

Posted By on Feb 4, 2017

A quest for more drive bays comes to an end with an affordable, redundant, hot-swappable solution from Supermicro. Check out this Intel/Supermicro hybrid!

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How does disk performance really affect VMs? Part II
Jan30

How does disk performance really affect VMs? Part II

Posted By on Jan 30, 2015

So I left off last time with simple benchmark results having moved my test VM around from one type of storage to the next.  If you haven’t read that article, here is a link for you to catch up on.  As you may recall we just wrapped up measuring throughput on the various storage types (two SSDs, an eight-disk RAID10 array, and a five-disk RAID5 array).  Now, we’ll be measuring the IOPS (I/O Operations Per Second) that these...

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How does disk performance really affect VMs?
Jan29

How does disk performance really affect VMs?

Posted By on Jan 29, 2015

Part 1 Most people know that SSDs are fast with high IOPS and mechanical disks are slower, offering less speed per unit and lower IOPS, but a better cost per TB.   Most “high end” enthusiast SSDs (read:  consumer) these days will offer 400+ MB/s and at least 70k IOPS at medium queue depths.  Mechanical disks might only offer 75 – 140 IOPS per disk and 100 – 125 MB/s transfer.  However, we also know that we can...

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Pump of the volume(s) with Synology DS1513+

Posted By on Sep 27, 2014

Hey everyone! I am in the process of setting up and deploying a Synology DS1513+ for one of my most important clients (…my mom!).  Right now she’s running her software development company off of a couple of desktops (a Core2Quad I built her a number of years ago and a new i7-4770k with 32GB of RAM and 512GB SSD that I built pretty recently).  She’s backing up her data with, I believe, Carbonite. Her desktops and...

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