OVH started offering 24TB monster storage in Canada

Looks like they are finally available in North America now

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/offers/bk-24t.xml

Previously only available in their other datacenters.

No bandwidth guarantees, so limited use.

Is it really DDR2 ? Does anything even use DDR2 anymore?

BK-24T $150/mo $69 setup fee

Processor Intel i5 2300
Cores/Threads 4 cores/ 4 threads
Frequency 2.8 GHz+
RAM 16 GB DDR2
Disks 6 x 4 TB SATA
RAID Soft
Network connection 1Gbps
Bandwidth not guaranteed (* 200mbps peak)
IPv4 1
IPv6 /64
Backup space 100 GB (included)

They used to put desktop 3TB drives into the HG series with 24-36 drives, surprisingly tho’ in my experience with them after many years very few of those cheapo drives broke
I do not have them anymore, so can not comment on current practices, tho’ wouldn’t be surprised if they cut corners, which could potentially result in tears.

Anyways is there much demand for large storage servers with good raid cards and good enterprise drives? or do people look for cheapest bang per buck?

They put the following drives in these models.

WD RE4 Black 4TB WD4001FAEX-00MJRA0

http://puu.sh/81gVh.png

Any idea what kind of NIC they’ve got? around the time OVH started building out this recent batch of SYS severs it had some terribly faulty Realtek card that would wreck kernels, didn’t know if these BK-XX were different

Little secret about OVH: they never do this math

That would be way higher quality than the desktop seagates in my OVH servers which are supposed to be better than SYS

Wait, do you have one of these in Canada?

I have so many questions.

Is it really DDR2 memory?

dmidecode -type memory

Looks like the availability just disappeared in Canada on the 24T

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/backup-server.xml

The little circle used to be there earlier today with 72 hour setup.

Hope it comes back asap

Honestly… its not much of a secret

So software Raid10 performance would be horrible right – so I guess people would run these as Raid1 ?

Wait can six drives even run as Raid1 ? I guess it is Raid6 or Raid10 then.

Performance is not really much of a concern for “Storage Servers” as the intended purpose is mainly to be used to archive a lot of data. If you are using it for its intended purpose and dumping backups on here in short bursts, the disk performance will not really be noticed.

Of course, I know there are those who will turn these into VPS Nodes…

I have the old backup series BK-8T. but I’m guessing that they use the same type of drives.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2130 CPU @ 3.40GHz

[root@ns4002375 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 20G 3.8G 15G 21% /
/dev/root 20G 3.8G 15G 21% /
devtmpfs 3.9G 256K 3.9G 1% /dev
/dev/md3 3.6T 3.2G 3.5T 1% /home
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev/shm

Well a VPS would be nuts, there is no cpu power available for that.

But a web facing massive image store (would not be suitable for video). If it is not against their TOS, you can have your own private imgur.

You are correct, but I recall at least one “startup” who was selling VPSs on a Pentium 4. No, this was not in 2000 rather 2012. I am sure that a few other “low end” hosts would run VPS nodes on these.