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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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