Wide Fast SATA: the Recipe for Hot Performance - High Scalability -

With a properly configured wide system, these numbers scale laterally. LSI 2208 or similar The LSI 2208 is used in the Dell H710p, which is available for the R720xd. Other Dell cards, notably the H310 series, are particularly bad. Get the MegaCli configuration tool The MegaCli tool is sometimes hard to find. We were able to find it eventually with Google. You can search at LSI’s website for the to

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"Dell R720xd has 24 2.5” drive bays / smaller drives (200G) gives higher performance at the same price per byte / at 22 bays per 2U, that’s still 4.4T / LSI 2208 has a “fast path” / Configure each drive as a separate RAID0 volume, and Write Through (WT) and NO Read Ahead (NORA). "

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Wide Fast SATA: the Recipe for Hot Performance This is a guest post by Brian Bulkowski, CTO and co-founder of Aerospike, a leading clustered NoSQL database, has worked in the area of high performance commodity systems since 1989. This blog post will tell you exactly how to build a multi-terabyte hig