Tag: SSD

  • SSTable on SSD

    When I first put the SSTable server on Google’s Compute Engine, I opted for the cheapest machine: an e2-small (2 cores and 2GB ram) with a standard persistent disk of 20 GiB. When I ran the server, each request was taking hundreds of milliseconds. Installed iotop and found I was getting at most 8 MiB/s…