[159665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflow Nfsen Server Hardware
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Jan 17 11:01:45 2013
In-Reply-To: <OF78A208AB.C0CA4FF4-ON85257AF6.004D3B3F-85257AF6.004D6EAB@csc.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:01:06 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Joe Loiacono <jloiacon@csc.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Joe Loiacono <jloiacon@csc.com> wrote:
> Tim Calvin <tcalvin@tlsn.net> wrote on 01/16/2013 05:51:11 PM:
>
>> PowerEdge R610 -
>>
>> 2x Intel E5540, 2.53GHz Quad Core Processor
>>
>> 32GB RAM
>>
>> 2x 300gb 10k 2.5" SAS HDD
>
> Since netflow processing is generally I/O bound, you may want to invest in
> 15K drives.
I had suggested off-list that perhaps primary storage as SSD was a
better path, is there a reason to not do that? (with some larger
storage on spinning-media for historical storage/query).
