[Novalug] Need advice on colo space..

[Dan Lavu]

How often, are you getting this data, daily? On most drives transfer rates average between 40-50MB/s, which is roughly around 4.2TB a day, so transferring 2TB of data, will still take 12 hours. Actually it sounds like you’re loading data, I guess this would be the best solution. I mean, what might be beneficial is doing a sync as you get the data, unless it’s like a dump file. 

 

Say it takes 12 hours to put the data on to the drive, 12 hours to load, total 24 hours plus commute.

 

If you are collectively getting the data at intervals, the best thing might be to do a sync, like this directory needs to be imported, sync that directory so it’s already on the server when you need to transfer it. Just something to think about.

 

Dan

 

 

From: Igor Birman [mailto:igor.birman at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:21 PM
To: Alex Smith (K4RNT); Dan Lavu
Cc: NOVALUG
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Need advice on colo space..

 

I don't have time to ship the drive, the customer needs to get the data on the server as fast as possible, that's why I am looking for access to the server at the colo.  Total data would be a couple of terabytes.

 

Igor

 

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From: Alex Smith (K4RNT) <shadowhunter at gmail.com>
To: Dan Lavu <dan at lavu.net> 
Cc: Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com>; NOVALUG <novalug at calypso.tux.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Need advice on colo space..


What's the total amount of data you're planning on storing?

AWS has an Import/Export product where you ship them a drive, and they
securely import it to an S3 or EBS volume for cheaper than uploading
it to the cloud yourself.

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/

This may be cheaper than a colo.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 20:18, Dan Lavu <dan at lavu.net> wrote:
> How much transfer are you talking about? Most connections are pretty fast
> now that you can download at least 2MB/s (7.2GB/hour) from a good local data
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> I just shopped around for some space and found the average to be $100-150 a
> month with reasonable bandwidth, but your bandwidth price will jack up the
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> From: novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org
> [mailto:novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Igor Birman
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 6:04 PM
> To: NOVALUG
> Subject: [Novalug] Need advice on colo space..
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> I have a customer that has a need to upload large amounts of data to a
> server so that it can be downloaded by his employees.  I suggested that we
> install his server at a colocation facility where he would be able to
> physically come and transfer data from an external drive.  I don't really
> know how this works or how much it would cost.  Can someone on this list
> help me find a space or offer to rent a slot in a rack in Reston or Herndon?
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> Thanks,
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> Igor
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