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New Scaleway Workload Intensive Cloud Servers - 6 and 8 Core
Scaleway added even more cloud servers to their range but I have a feeling they haven't thought about their bare metal as their 6 core model seems worse then the similarily price c2750 bare metal.
https://blog.online.net/2017/02/23/workload-intensive-cloud-servers-new-variants/
Thanked by 1datanoise
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They just trying to innovate something for pump money from unsuspected folks
Sort of but the 16gb baremetal is a more obvious culprit of that by only other 50gb instead of 100/150
Those are 6 xeon cores, not 8 atom cores. Should be faster.
Disks are Network Block Device?
Yes, same as the other scaleway instances, no raid.
That's not good. But it's great that they now allow smaller instances, performance is quite good for the buck. It can be a great temporary solution (as there is no contract / no minimum period).
+1, Completely kills the idea.
Who needs raid when you can duplicate everything on more than one server cheap
Tried to launch kvm virt machine at 17.99€/m and 23.99€/m bare metal. Expected excellent performance but it was unusable, I think because nbd. So seems Workload Intensive doesn't change situation for such task.
tested the higher end ones. not too impresive really for the cost http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/8249800
I tested the 60gb one a couple weeks ago. There's another thread about it on LET somewhere. It's a Xeon D-1531 processor (6 cores 12 threads) and it seemed to me that I got the whole cpu performance (no noisy neighbor). That put it about equal to the i7-3770 and E3-1230v3 that I use more steadily. That's around 2.5x the Avoton (Atom) C2750 (or was it 2758) that the regular x86 stuff runs on.
Conclusion was that it's nice if you need a lot of ram for a short time, but not that cost effective if it's cpu you after. My guess was that the 120gb model has the same cpu as the 60gb, but I didn't confirm this.
Hope they will support PP payment method soon