[clug] Fwd: Re: Servers, disks and power-use

[David C]

Yeah, reply all...
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From: "David C" <cottrill.david at gmail.com>
Date: 13 Oct 2012 13:17
Subject: Re: [clug] Servers, disks and power-use
To: <brett at worth.id.au>

Asus c60m-1 motherboard.
processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 20
model           : 2
model name      : AMD C-60 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 512 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 1
cpu cores       : 2
apicid          : 1
initial apicid  : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 6
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov
pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb
rdtscp
lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor ssse3 cx16
popcn
t lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse
3dnowprefetch
ibs skinit wdt arat cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter
bogomips        : 1999.93
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps hwpstate [9]

 On 13 Oct 2012 12:33, "Brett Worth" <brett at worth.id.au> wrote:

> On 13/10/12 12:26, David C wrote:
>
>> The cost of the energy required to spin the greater diameter disks far
>> outstrips the cost of the smaller form factor over 2 years.
>> In my case I can push 105MB/s through my raid array. Any more than that
>> would require faster disks and CPUs that beat 1GHz.
>>
>
> What is the CPU side of your NAS?  Some sort of ARM thingo I assume.
>
> Brett
>
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