Category: Storage

Benchmarking USB memory stick read speeds

We use quite a lot of USB sticks for various server administration tasks. What we have noticed is constant lacklustre performance on most memory sticks....

HDD and SSD Market Pricing Is Increasing.

Prices of HDDs has largely stagnated over the last 6 months, and in some cases for the past 2 years or more. SSD prices has actually increased...

RAID Seedbox? Disk redundancy in Seedboxes

There’s been some chat going on about disk redundancy in Seedboxes. So how does the landscape look like? Google search of RAID5 Seedbox yields pretty much...

Disk IO Performance stats

Collecting I/O performance metrics We started to collect quite precise disk performance stats. First week of data is here! These stats are collected from the...

SSD Seedbox Beta testing!

SSD Seedboxes are under beta-testing and testing the waters phase right now! SSD Seedbox can offer an extreme in disk I/O performance, hence always fast...