Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by dineshp2 » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:16 PM UTC

Highly Available Block Storage
digitalocean.com

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

#2

Post by skrowl » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:31 PM UTC

I like their straight forward pricing. $0.10 USD per GB per month. No IOPS limits.

That said, how do you prevent a rogue droplet from going crazy and hogging up all of the SSD I/O?

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by lamarkia » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:34 PM UTC

I benchmarked the new block storage and it is not that faster than the virtio disk.

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

#4

Post by daveguy » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

Edit3: Remountable/movable flexible storage for DO instances is what this gives you and it's kind of pricey. The comparison to B2 is not valid. Leaving the original mess for posterity.

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TWENTY times (edit) the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.10 vs $.005 per GB per month). It is one of the more expensive ones. But that gets you two things:

* (moot See edit 2) SSD! (significant iops improvement)

* (moot See edit 2) No transactional costs! (not sure if just between digital ocean instances, but they say none)

Improved performance and no transaction costs MAY (edit) be worth it for some applications.

Edit1: made it an order of magnitude cheaper in my head after looking at backblaze. It is no where close to the same price. Thank you for the catch, scq!

Edit2: and I'm just all kinds of off on this. Block not object storage. Essentially storage you can mount and move between digitalocean instances. That makes no transaction costs moot. You still have to get data out of the instance.

Thank you all for quickly catching how backwards this post was! I need coffee.

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by dastbe » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:38 PM UTC

Don't be confused: the article makes the mistake of comparing DOs new block storage service with other companies object stores. EBS is the competitor to this, not S3. Same for gce persistent disks and azure drives.

Unfortunately this means the pricing comparison is just wrong.

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by BrandonBradley » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:41 PM UTC

dastbe wrote: post #5

Don't be confused: the article makes the mistake of comparing DOs new block storage service with other companies object stores. EBS is the competitor to this, not S3. Same for gce persistent disks and azure drives. Unfortunately this means the pricing comparison is just wrong.

Whoops

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by Spooks » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

lamarkia wrote: post #3

I benchmarked the new block storage and it is not that faster than the virtio disk.

can we see some more info on your benchmarks? what was the performance difference? Kind of need to backup your statement

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by koolba » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

daveguy wrote: post #4

Edit3: Remountable/movable flexible storage for DO instances is what this gives you and it's kind of pricey. The comparison to B2 is not valid. Leaving the original mess for posterity. --- TWENTY times (edit) the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.10 vs $.005 per GB per month). It is one of the more expensive ones. But that gets you two things: * (moot See edit 2) SSD! (significant iops improvement) * (moot See edit 2) No…

> Twice the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.010 vs $.005 per GB per month).

I believe B2 is an object store, not a block store (like this). The AWS analogy is block store is EBS, object store is S3.

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

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Post by AYBABTME » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:42 PM UTC

daveguy wrote: post #4

Edit3: Remountable/movable flexible storage for DO instances is what this gives you and it's kind of pricey. The comparison to B2 is not valid. Leaving the original mess for posterity. --- TWENTY times (edit) the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.10 vs $.005 per GB per month). It is one of the more expensive ones. But that gets you two things: * (moot See edit 2) SSD! (significant iops improvement) * (moot See edit 2) No…

B2 is not block storage tho, it's object storage. Different products. =]

Re: Highly Available Block Storage

#10

Post by crb » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 1:43 PM UTC

daveguy wrote: post #4

Edit3: Remountable/movable flexible storage for DO instances is what this gives you and it's kind of pricey. The comparison to B2 is not valid. Leaving the original mess for posterity. --- TWENTY times (edit) the price as B2 from Backblaze ($.10 vs $.005 per GB per month). It is one of the more expensive ones. But that gets you two things: * (moot See edit 2) SSD! (significant iops improvement) * (moot See edit 2) No…

B2 is blob storage, like Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3. What they have launched is SSD block storage, like Google persistent disks or Amazon EBS.

(The TechCrunch article also got this confused.)