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Reflecting on Year 2016 and What is Coming For Year 2017

Posted on December 24, 2016 by aleksi

It has been quite an year over here at Pulsed Media. New datacenter, new network, new servers. In March we moved to the new datacenter, moving the hardware and bringing it up. To our surprise it went super smooth and… Continue Reading →

Datacenter, Servers, Storage datacenter, hdd, ssd
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HDD and SSD Market Pricing Is Increasing.

Posted on December 3, 2016 by aleksi

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 since the summer. This is due to global shortage of NAND chips and many delays… Continue Reading →

Storage cost, hdd, market, price, ssd, storage
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RAID? What is it, and what does it mean for Your Seedbox?

Posted on November 19, 2016 by aleksi

RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks It is a common and mature technology to join multiple drives (HDDs or SSDs) to form either a redundant and/or larger pool of single logical storage. It works on lower level than the filesystem, and… Continue Reading →

Storage backup, dragon, performance, quality, raid, redundancy, reliability, standards, storage
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SSD Seedbox: The Holy Grail of Performance?

Posted on July 7, 2016 by aleksi

SSD Seedbox – Is it the Holy Grail of Performance? With SSDs as the storage medium you may be expecting always blazing fast speeds, link maximum upload speeds at whenever, and basicly going through your traffic limit super fast. To… Continue Reading →

Storage network, performance, quality, ssd, storage
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Kibibyte, Kilobyte – The divider 1024 and 1000

Posted on September 5, 2015 by aleksi

What are all these acronyms? What is the difference between MB, MiB and 1000 and 1024 dividers, especially when it comes to hard drive sizes? The KiB, MiB, TiB style became more widespread known when Ubuntu started using this. It’s… Continue Reading →

Servers, Storage acronyms, hdd, network, ssd, standards, storage
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RAID Seedbox? Disk redundancy in Seedboxes

Posted on August 20, 2015 by aleksi

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 no results other than our services! Some results for RAID10 seedbox query, but all those… Continue Reading →

Seedboxes, Servers, Storage hdd, raid, redundancy, reliability, seedbox, server, storage
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Disk IO Performance stats

Posted on August 17, 2015 by aleksi

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 lowest service to the highest, a significant portion is already being monitored this meticulously. This… Continue Reading →

Servers, Storage dedicated server, hdd, iostat, mds, performance, resources, server, ssd, storage
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SSD Seedbox Beta testing!

Posted on June 23, 2015 by aleksi

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 GUI, and newer having the disks as bottleneck for transfer speed. However, they come with… Continue Reading →

Seedboxes, Storage performance, redundancy, reliability, seedbox, server, ssd, storage
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Follow up on Seagate Archive 8TB HDD Benchmark

Posted on March 14, 2015 by aleksi

Two weeks back we benchmarked the Seagate Archive 8Tb drive, and it has gained some feedback. We’d like to take this opportunity to clear some things. There was some constructive criticism about this drive and some questions presented to us… Continue Reading →

Datacenter, Storage
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Seagate Archive 8TB Benchmark and review

Posted on February 28, 2015 by aleksi

We have been testing and benchmarking the Seagate’s new 8TB Archive HDD, which features SMR, Shingled Magnetic Recording. Described in the following video: It is marketed as enterprise nearline storage – with the accompanying 5 year warranty! This is a… Continue Reading →

Servers, Storage

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