which better multi servers or bigger space?

[hscorp]

which better multi servers or bigger space?

what i mean

4 servers 2tb space each
or
2 servers 4tb space each
or
1 server 8tb space?

which is better any why from your opinion?

[chrda]

Many factors here.

2 ways i look at this.

You can have 1 server with 8Tb raid 10 etc. (raid is nice for data security)

Or you can have 4 server with single 2Tb drives.

In BW pricing, single servers with 1x2TB HD is the best option.
You can get 100tb bw + 2TB +500gb + 500gb for 260$ a month
Depending on filesizes of your files server can handle 200-600Mbit due IO restrictions on the drive.

The other factor is if one single server with single HD is that if the hd crash, the data is gone.
Using a bigger server with RAID will make it harder to loose data.

Example using a server with etc 12x2TB in raid10 will give alot of IO power and server should handle 1Gbit+ easy

So depends on how much money you got and how important the data is, and if you want nice speed to you users.

Email me if you want to talk more.

[GMC]

Thanks sensible and good advice

GMC

[gtdev]

my server topologi is :

1 server @4 TB hdd with raid 1-0 and 1 TB for www1, 1 TB for www2, 1 TB for www3, 1 TB for www4

and there running with 6 main storage server 6 x @4 TB HDD

for file server and etc im use
1 server for database system
1 server for fileserver + loadbalancer

and in storage server upload and download have different eth card
eth0 for upload, eth1 for download.

*sory for mybad english ^^

[admin]

The biggest issue of systems with one big HDD is IO wait time. Sooner or later you will get situation when your HDD (even if it's in raid. but depends on controller) will be utilized at 100% and it will slow down entire system. Especially if you will host mysql db on the same partition.

So, we usually advice to go with at least 1 server for front end, 2nd server for database, and 3+ file server for files.