Rapidspeeds Gbit NL review/discussion

**Craig** · 09-28-2010, 10:00 AM

People who use these Servers for websites etc don't only use them for 1 website, there could be hundreds of websites on this server. Just 2 days ago we had someone move to us from another company. This user was going to use the server for a website and would need 2 more server the month after. The website is such a website like megavideo.

So all well is well

We now have a few more servers up for grabs on our site with a bit more hard drive and upgradable ram

. Gives people a bit more selection. We are also looking at introducing more servers near the beginning of January to catter for people not wanting to pay £120 for a server. We will see how it goes

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**Thelen** · 09-28-2010, 02:05 PM

Interesting new offers, the main problem is there is very little difference in HDD speed between those, though with 32GB RAM that might help with sites etc.

Are you ever going to get into 4 disk setups, or is that too much risk of someone doing too much BW?

**RapidSpeeds** · 09-29-2010, 12:34 AM

Hi Thelen,

Well, more cache on the hdd when the size increases.

To answer your question though, we have two ranges of servers:

Dell PowerEdge R210 -> Quad Core Xeon X3430 - Upto 32GB DDR3 - 2 hdd slots (1000GB, 1500GB & 2000GB hdds available)
HP DL120 G6 (new) -> Quad Core Xeon X3430 - Upto 16GB DDR3 - 4 hdd slots (1000GB or 1500GB hdds available).

We wouldn't offer 4 x 2TB for power consumption reasons and also we know exactly what people would be upto, hammering alot of bandwidth thats for sure - Although, the 6TB server, that will be priced a little higher as the switches for that rack would probably need another 1 or 2GigE added to it so the trunks could feed the rest of the bandwidth to other racks and not all to that one - if you however just wanted the reliability of RAID 5 and 4 x 1TB this won't be priced that high

**Thelen** · 09-29-2010, 07:51 AM

4x1TB or 1.5TB is ok, but 4x2TB suddenly uses more power? LOL? Last time I checked the power usage difference between those 3 is about 5 watts, during spinup, and about 2 watt while idle. But whatever, the end result is to prevent someone using Gbit for a whole month (something that costs you around 1200 euro) while only paying a couple hundred euro for the server

Out of curiosity, where are you buying all the gear from? I notice they are the same that LW offers, do you buy them from LW or whoever supplies LW or just open market? (ask because I've not been able to find a reliable supplier, at least not one that directly sells from Dell = EXPENSIVE)

**heiska** · 09-29-2010, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Thelen

4x1TB or 1.5TB is ok, but 4x2TB suddenly uses more power? LOL? Last time I checked the power usage difference between those 3 is about 5 watts, during spinup, and about 2 watt while idle. But whatever, the end result is to prevent someone using Gbit for a whole month (something that costs you around 1200 euro) while only paying a couple hundred euro for the server

Meh, as if you could possibly waste shitloads more BW with 4 x 2TB HDDs versus 4 x 1.5TB HDDs.