XFileSharing Pro - Performance Issue with Big vs Small Fileservers

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beeman1212
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Performance Issue with Big vs Small Fileservers

#1 Postby beeman1212 » Mar 30, 2012 10:16 pm

Hi everyone,

Would be great if some experienced members here can provide input on this subject. In reality how much can a server like below handle with just a 1GigE port?

Dell PE R510
Intel E5504
16GB RAM
12x2000GB HDD
100TB traffic on GigE port
HW Raid 5 or 6 or 10

I'm pretty new to filehosting and I have about 100 users now on my site, my fileserver specs is this

Dell PowerEdge R510
CPU: 2x Intel Quad Core E5504
RAM: 8GB DDR3
HDD: 4x 2TB
HW RAID 5

With this server and about 1TB of files I'm already noticing slow download speeds during peak hours. I have nginx mod installed and capped it at 1.5mb/sec and during peak hours I will get 600-800KB/sec.

What I'm thinking is, what's the point of having such huge storage when my fileserver that is only 1TB filled is already suffering in download speeds?

If you purchased a huge storage server that is 12x2000 and fill it up all the way won't the performance suffer big time?

How does a big storage server handle more than 100 users? Maybe I'm missing something, I hope somebody here can enlighten me.

chrda
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#2 Postby chrda » Mar 30, 2012 10:35 pm

email me your skype and we can talk.

Then you can write your solution here for the others.

beeman1212
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#3 Postby beeman1212 » Mar 30, 2012 11:51 pm

hi chrda, thanks for attempting to take your time to talk to me, I've sent you an email. :)

If anyone else has some input please share.

bhanuprasad1981
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#4 Postby bhanuprasad1981 » Mar 31, 2012 4:35 am

good points, i am too interested to know this from experienced pl here , btw do you guys think nginx mod is required ?to control bandwidth only nginx mod required or cgi mod also must ?

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#5 Postby bhanuprasad1981 » Apr 14, 2012 2:15 pm

any updates on this i am in process to aquire more servers but confused either to go with one large server or multi small servers ?

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#6 Postby admin » Apr 14, 2012 5:11 pm

Chrda, would you be interested to share your experience in our knowledge base? Let us know.

bhanuprasad1981
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#7 Postby bhanuprasad1981 » Apr 14, 2012 5:46 pm

admin what is your view ?

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#8 Postby ufkabakan » Apr 14, 2012 8:15 pm

5x 2TB Server with Single CPU better than 2x5TB server with dual CPU for general usage. But price expensive for 5x servers.

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#9 Postby bhanuprasad1981 » Apr 15, 2012 11:26 am

i was thinking to buy quad server with 2 x 2tb hdd in raid 0 what you guys say ?

ankurs
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#10 Postby ankurs » Apr 15, 2012 1:06 pm

raid0 is suicide

Stefanzm
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#11 Postby Stefanzm » Apr 15, 2012 3:35 pm

care to explain ankurs ?

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#12 Postby hostlife » Apr 15, 2012 8:19 pm

stefanzm: If any of your disk will fail. Your whole data will be lost.