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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by cestith on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:15PM (#29167597)
With spiky utilization, you're buying and powering a lot of hardware to sit idle a good portion of the time.
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Re:We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem by jjav on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @09:51PM (#29170515)
Exactly, that is why if utilization is particularly spiky or unpredictable, that's a perfect use case for AWS (or similar).
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