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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by chacham15 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:09PM (#7604847)
Parallelizability isnt always possible, but you should normalize the speed you get per dollar.

    287 MB/sec / $5  ~ 57 MB/sec/dollar 
    816 MB/sec / $20 ~ 40 MB/sec/dollar
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by jgillich on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:31PM (#7604983) 

    287 MB/sec / $20 ~ 14 MB/sec/dollar
I don't think MB/sec/dollar makes sense simply because disk speed does not scale. If you need a (very) fast disk, Linode is obviously the better choice.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by lunixbochs on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:38PM (#7605025)
That's only when comparing $5 to $20. Does the $20 DO model also have 287MB/s?
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by TylerE on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:35PM (#7605007)
If the difference matters, a $5 DO node likely isn't cutting it.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by chacham15 on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:32PM (#7607822)
Thats not the issue. The issue is if (and only if) you have a perfectly parallelizable task, you would be better off getting 4 x $5 DO servers with a rate of (4 x 287) 1148 MB/sec which is much better than 816 MB/sec for the same price. Or you could even get 3 $5 servers and have a rate of (3 x 287) 861 MB/sec which is still better and also cheaper.
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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by weixiyen on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:55PM (#7605574)
It's not like the $20 DO instance is going to be faster
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