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Linode Upgrades Hardware

serverbearserverbear Member
edited March 2013 in General

http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/

Powering our NextGen hosts are two Intel Sandy Bridge E5-2670 processors. The E5-2670 is at the high end of the power-price-performance ratio. Each E5-2670 enjoys 20 MB of cache and has 8 cores running at 2.6 Ghz. We’ve also moved to the latest generation of the enterprise-grade hard disk drives — doubling their cache, increasing their port speed, and decreasing latency and access time.

Should have some benchmark comparisons shortly.

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    Much more significant is the high jump in bandwidth. Used to be $20 got you 200GB. As of February, their lowest package at $20/month now gives you 2TB.

  • Wondering what can be the "part 3"...
    CDN?
    Separated storage volumes?

    Still that E5s are not as fast as the E3 ones...

  • PatrickPatrick Member
    edited March 2013

    @yomero said: Still that E5s are not as fast as the E3 ones...

    Clock wise maybe but a single E5-2670 has almost double CPU Benchmark in general, from linode.com they give you access to 8 Cores and you can use it depending on priority

  • @Patrick said: Clock wise maybe

    I know.
    But for my usage (games are single threaded stuff), they almost suck

  • @yomero said: games are single threaded stuff

    But that IS clock wise ;p

  • @yomero said: Wondering what can be the "part 3"...

    Triple the ram for all instances!

  • u4iau4ia Member

    I wonder if that means an increase of container density.

  • @u4ia said: I wonder if that means an increase of container density.

    Unless they do this:

    @unused said: Triple the ram for all instances!

    Yes, more containers, because that mobos support more RAM than the L5520's mobos.

  • Looks like next update will be double RAM:

    image

  • @yomero said: Yes, more containers, because that mobos support more RAM than the L5520's mobos.

    Actually the mobos don't support more because the CPU doesn't. It's all about memory channels here.

  • @serverbear said: Looks like next update will be double RAM:

    And still annoying HDD amounts. My OCD is like gahh make it 25GB per GB

  • yomeroyomero Member
    edited March 2013

    @BronzeByte said: Actually the mobos don't support more because the CPU doesn't. It's all about memory channels here.

    I know. The new platform supports like +512GB RAM or so :S

    Edit http://ark.intel.com/compare/40201,64595

  • @yomero said: I know. The new platform supports like +512GB RAM or so :S

    Dual E5's support up to 750GB RAM by definition

  • @serverbear said: Looks like next update will be double RAM

    Hell I wish they'd stop with the upgrades, I'm getting tired of rebooting Linodes....

  • u4iau4ia Member

    @serverbear where did you find that out?

  • marcmmarcm Member

    @serverbear - looks like Linode is feeling the pinch and wants to stay in business. And they have the cash to pull it off, so we'll see. I wouldn't be surprised to see the advertise around here as well. By the way, how have you been?

  • serverbearserverbear Member
    edited March 2013

    @u4ia said: @serverbear where did you find that out?

    Someone posted that on Twitter (I think it's a flyer from SXSW), we've got an interview with Linode about all the new hardware due to go up soon. They've been sitting on it for almost 3 months now, but assured me that it's "almost finished."

  • Must of been sitting on a pile of cash to want to spend on those processors they're like 1500 a pop

  • JacobJacob Member
    edited March 2013

    Who isn't sitting on a pile of cash these days...

    I spend too much! :'(

  • @FRCorey said: Must of been sitting on a pile of cash to want to spend on those processors they're like 1500 a pop

    I was surprised with the choice of processor also

  • I guess it's a matter of prestige for them to use an expensive processor. Besides they are probably going to use the same hardware for another 5 years, so it'd better be good.

  • @FRCorey said: Must of been sitting on a pile of cash to want to spend on those processors they're like 1500 a pop

    There is no way in hell they are paying list price for those

  • JacobJacob Member

    Nah, they're planning to spend $1M total 1/4 on hardware probably so I can see a good discount.

  • @texteditor said: There is no way in hell they are paying list price for those

    1000qty tray / Intel Costa Rica / 675$ each CPU

  • @FRCorey said: Must of been sitting on a pile of cash

    After charging $20 per 512MB of RAM for a couple of years (and little disk space) I hope they have a pile of cash ;-)

    I hope EDIS sees this as an incentive to add more HD space to their servers :-P

  • ChanChan Member

    @yomero said: Wondering what can be the "part 3"...

    CDN?
    Separated storage volumes?

    Hourly based billing perhaps? I think they hinted that back when they launched their trials

  • @Chan
    why would anyone need hourly billing? When you remove a linode, credits for remaining days automatically gets refunded back to the account

  • @Ruchirablog said: credits for remaining days automatically gets refunded back to the account

    Yes, per days :(

    @Chan said: Hourly based billing perhaps?

    Sounds interesting, but probably the idea of @serverbear is more realistic, just double RAM, which honestly doesn't make me happy :P

  • @yomero
    Dont be that silly :3

  • ChanChan Member

    @yomero said: Sounds interesting, but probably the idea of @serverbear is more realistic, just double RAM, which honestly doesn't make me happy :P

    I'd much rather they have a $10 512Mb option lol

    why would anyone need hourly billing? When you remove a linode, credits for remaining days automatically gets refunded back to the account

    Yeah I know but that's still not quite the same thing as what you get from DigitalOcean or EC2

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