Tuesday, May 01
New Toy: Arale
It's a Xeon E5-2620 v2 with 64GB of RAM and a RAID-6 array of SSDs.
It's a Xeon E5-2620 v2 with 64GB of RAM and a RAID-6 array of SSDs.
It's very cheap because it's a 2013 system - not quite 5 years old - and they're small SSDs. But it will do nicely to replace a couple of our other servers that are running with single SSDs.
It will be the main server for the new platform. I was worried until the weekend that I'd need more CPU power than that, but the 5x performance gains I got from two days of intense optimisation mean that this little server will run like the wind. In Kansas. In May.
The 64GB RAM is nice too; the other server I got recently only has 16GB, which is adequate but not spacious. I had been considering Digital Ocean because of the ease of use, but it would cost nearly 5x as much if I wanted that much RAM in one place.
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And I have that stupid boot loader problem with this one too. Digital Ocean does not suffer from boot loader problems.
Update: Well, that was weird. Five-year-old hardware but a two-year-old operating system won't boot. But a week-old operating system does.
Well, Ubuntu 18.04 here we go, I guess. While fiddling around I turned it into a RAID-1 for boot and a RAID-5 for storage. I'll probably keep that.
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