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Storage Enhancements

  • August 11, 2025 at 12:00 am

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  • August 12, 2025 at 12:10 am

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    Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

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  • August 28, 2025 at 4:39 pm

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    Except that now, with all the cloud SaaS offerings, we are right back to square one, in my opinion. Disks and IOPS for anything in the cloud are expensive and ridiculously slow. We constantly get 429 errors against Azure Cosmos DB.

    Some of Microsoft's documentation suggests that I can create a VM with 300,000 IPOS. Yet, in the Azure portal, I only see a measly 12,800 (see attached image, the forum isn't letting me put it inline here). There are several available with a Max IOPS rating of 25,600. There were a couple rated at 48,400 and 51,200, but the cost is astronomical!

    A comparison versus on-premises was done. A VM on the popular Dell PowerEdge series, an R730, with a RAID 5 array of some Seagate Cheetah 15K SAS 6 Gbps drives. Deploying a VM and running the test on that, we get over 75,000 IOPS!

    I had bought a Minisforum MS-A1 and upgraded it to 96GB or RAM and a Western Digital Blue 2TB NVMe, all for about $1,000. Running Microsoft Hyper-V on the included Windows 11 Pro, deploying a VM and running the disk test, we get a whopping, a staggering, 154,000 IOPS!

    So, while I agree with you that for the majority of on-premises hardware and software, we don't have to worry about storage configuration, we do have to be very cognizant of it in the cloud.

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