Re: Experience with 5k RPM/archive HDDs

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> Op 3 februari 2017 om 8:39 schreef Christian Balzer <chibi@xxxxxxx>:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:30:28 +0300 Irek Fasikhov wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Maxime.
> > 
> > Linux SMR is only starting with version 4.9 kernel.
> >
> What Irek said.
> 
> Also, SMR in general is probably a bad match for Ceph.
> Drives like that really want to be treated more like a tape than anything
> else.
>  

Yes, they are damn slow.

> 
> In general, do you really need all this space, what's your use case?
> 
> Unless it's something like a backup/archive cluster or pool with little to
> none concurrent R/W access, you're likely to run out of IOPS (again) long
> before filling these monsters up.
> 

I fully agree. These large disks have very low IOps specs and will probably work very, very bad with Ceph.

Wido

> Christian
> > 
> > С уважением, Фасихов Ирек Нургаязович
> > Моб.: +79229045757
> > 
> > 2017-02-03 10:26 GMT+03:00 Maxime Guyot <Maxime.Guyot@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I’m wondering if anyone in the ML is running a cluster with archive type
> > > HDDs, like the HGST Ultrastar Archive (10TB@7.2k RPM) or the Seagate
> > > Enterprise Archive (8TB@5.9k RPM)?
> > >
> > > As far as I read they both fall in the enterprise class HDDs so **might**
> > > be suitable for a low performance, low cost cluster?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Maxime
> > >
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