My favorites are the seagate 3.5" drives ST31000340AS & ST31000340NS. Cheers <k/>
On 1/5/11 Wed Jan 5, 11, "Dieter Reuter" <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm just trying to evaluate HBase/Hadoop on a small cluster. > >For the very first tests I just set up a cluster of 6 nodes on a single >ESXi >server, 1x Master/ZK/NN and 5x RS/DN. The setup process was quiet easy and >straight forward with CDH3b3 on CentOS 5.5. Now I'm able to play around >with >the basic operation. But for real performance tests I'll have to add fast >disks and go for real hardware. > >From the list I learned, to increase the disk throughput just use more >disks/spindles. For this case I'd like to go for real nodes with 4x 1TB >disks per node. I think 2TB disks are slower, and I really don't need 8TB >per node for my POC. For now I just would select standard 7200 SATA disks >like WD1003FBYX, WD1002FAEX or similar. > >But what type of 1TB disk gives me a good performance for a reasonable >price? I can't find any recent comparison for the usage pattern with >hbase/hadoop. > >Any recommendations are welcome. >Thanks. > >-- >Dieter
