Ninja Bastille Disk IO

[Xelene]

At work we have some pretty unique use cases for hardware, we have some very very heavy IO related tasks so was just having a play around.

You can buy a Dell 2U server that will fit 12 * 2.5" SATA drives with a pretty decent RAID controller. Just pondering 12 * Crucial M4 512GB in RAID 6. Would make a very very nice DB server.

 

[Xelene]

SSDs? Surely you'd want something else if you were going to constantly write - I know they've been getting better but I wouldn't want to put high writes on SSDs just incase you loose your RAID level and kill the array.

M.

Heavy heavy read, it's like a 5tb memory cache

We probably have one of the largest render farms outside of ILM and Weta, probably the largest in Europe.