ServerBear Specs on Scale HC3
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Since we have been testing so many hosted platforms, I figured it would be great to run the same test on our Scale HC3 HC2000 cluster. This is a two vCPU and 2GB RAM VM running on the standard SATA drives. (We will get a new test when the new model arrives which is soon.)
ServerBear Results for Scale HC3 HC2000 2 vCPU 2GB VM
UnixBench score: 2641.3
UnixBench Single Thread: 1569.8
I/O rate: 257.0 MB/second
Read IOPS: 4016
Write IOPS: 4665Ignore the bandwidth info as that is just the lab's cable connection and not relevant to the test.
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Compared to the performance of Linode, Vultr, Digital Ocean and Rackspace with the same 2 vCPU / 2GB configuration, the Scale HC3 HC2000 crushed them in CPU performance. Of course, all of those are SSD based and this particular model is SATA based so they have dramatically higher IOPS, but very surprisingly the HC2000 manages to beat Rackspace, Digital Ocean and Vultr is disk throughput even still, coming in only behind Linode!
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For those wondering, a single starter three node HC2000 cluster can run 64 VMs of this size in HA mode and 96 VMs of this size without HA. Each additional node would add 32 VM capacity.
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Next hardware refresh I'm getting a SCALE cluster...
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@brianlittlejohn said:
Next hardware refresh I'm getting a SCALE cluster...
Our new cluster has already shipped. These are the specs from the OLD one, wait until you see what the new one can do!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
For those wondering, a single starter three node HC2000 cluster can run 64 VMs of this size in HA mode and 96 VMs of this size without HA. Each additional node would add 32 VM capacity.
What sort of price for a 3 node set-up?
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@hobbit666 I think their base 3 node is around $20-25K US.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@hobbit666 I think their base 3 node is around $20-25K US.
Yes, $25K is the MSRP on the starter unit.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@hobbit666 I think their base 3 node is around $20-25K US.
Yes, $25K is the MSRP on the starter unit.
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
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@hobbit666 said:
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
New units are right around the corner so don't want to say for sure, but the HC1000 and HC2000 clusters are both 12x SATA drives in RAIN throughout the cluster. So the performance varies a little but the IOPS are more or less what they are, you can see those above. The capacity is around 21.6TB RAW.
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Currently the HC1000 is 7200RPM SATA and the HC2000 is usually 10K SAS.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@hobbit666 said:
Not silly money, what sort of storage comes with the basic starter kit?
New units are right around the corner so don't want to say for sure, but the HC1000 and HC2000 clusters are both 12x SATA drives in RAIN throughout the cluster. So the performance varies a little but the IOPS are more or less what they are, you can see those above. The capacity is around 21.6TB RAW.
I don't know what RAIN is - so what is the usable storage?
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@Dashrender RAIN = Redundant Array of Independent Noodles...
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@RojoLoco said:
@Dashrender RAIN = Redundant Array of Independent Noodles...
Mmm, noodles, it's past my lunchtime.
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@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
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@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
They have to be redundant. Eating JBON is much less satisfying.
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@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
Great, now I want redundant tacos.
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@coliver said:
@RojoLoco said:
@travisdh1 mine too. Now I want noodles, redundant or otherwise.
They have to be redundant. Eating JBON is much less satisfying.
You win this thread... we will be sending you an award soon.
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It's oddly satisfying to know that you can relate RAID to almost anything... we had a hamster thread not too long ago as well.
