Comments on: Rackspace breaks out block storage with disk and SSD options http://gigaom.com/2012/10/23/rackspace-breaks-out-block-storage-with-disk-and-ssd-options/ Wed, 22 May 2013 19:50:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sadric http://gigaom.com/2012/10/23/rackspace-breaks-out-block-storage-with-disk-and-ssd-options/#comment-1113067 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:47:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=576070#comment-1113067 Ill be glad when they move cloud servers off the sata drives to sas drives at least. Its nice they offer customers for managed and intensive SSD option, but improve the common folks usage of clud servers as well.

]]> By: David Mytton http://gigaom.com/2012/10/23/rackspace-breaks-out-block-storage-with-disk-and-ssd-options/#comment-1109941 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:35:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=576070#comment-1109941 It’s good to have the choice between high I/O SSDs for the likes of databases and cheaper spinning disks for general disk storage. However, this is still a shared platform which will get busier as more customers use it. It’s also over the network which provides further latency and other ways to fail.

I like that they don’t bill based on the number of operations performed which adds a “black magic” effect when calculating pricing for Amazon’s EBS product. However, the provisioned IOPs product Amazon now have offers a guaranteed level of performance which should guarantee you against other customers using the same storage facility. Predictability is the most important thing for performance so that might give Amazon the edge here.

]]> By: Hassan Hosseini http://gigaom.com/2012/10/23/rackspace-breaks-out-block-storage-with-disk-and-ssd-options/#comment-1105144 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:53:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=576070#comment-1105144 This looks like it is directly targeted towards AWS EBS volumes – PlanForCloud have done a cost comparison of AWS vs Rackspace for EBS vs standard cloud block storage vs EBS standard AND SSD vs PIOPS: http://blog.planforcloud.com/2012/10/cost-comparison-rackspace-cloud-block.html

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