Building the new battleship Mtron
A while back I stumbled upon the legendary article; Battleship Mtron, the absurdly fast RAID array build with 9 Mtron SSDs on a blazingly fast Areca ARC-1231ML, sporting an amazing 800 MHz Intel...
View ArticleOne DVD per second
Abstract For modern database systems the main bottleneck is usually IO. In order to speed up our database we conducted a study to find the fastest IO system currently available. In this article we...
View ArticleSSD performance improvements set LIVE
In a previous blog entry (One DVD per second) we described how we build a new fast SSD based Database server and how we benchmarked it. This week we put the new SSD DB server to the ultimate test,...
View Article100K+ IOPS on semi-commodity hardware
Abstract A while ago we conducted a study to find the fastest IO subsystem that money can buy these days. The only restriction being that it should be build out of (semi) commodity hardware. That meant...
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