{"id":15863,"date":"2014-01-03T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15863"},"modified":"2014-01-03T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:26:30","slug":"how-many-ssds-do-i-need-for-tiered-storage-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15863","title":{"rendered":"How Many SSDs Do I Need For Tiered Storage Spaces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good question.\u00a0 The guidance I had been given was between 4-8 SSDs per JBOD tray.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just found <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/windows\/hardware\/dn567634.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">guidance<\/a> that is a bit more precise.\u00a0 This is what Microsoft says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When purchasing storage for a tiered deployment, we recommend the following number of SSDs in a completely full disk enclosure of different bay capacities in order to achieve optimal performance for a diverse set of workloads:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Disk enclosure slot count<\/td>\n<td>Simple space<\/td>\n<td>2-way mirror space<\/td>\n<td>3-way mirror space<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12 bay<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>24 bay<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>60 bay<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>70 bay<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Minimum<\/strong> <\/span>number of SSDs Recommended for Different Resiliency Settings<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7610b937-fdad-4037-8871-86e587640fb9\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage\" rel=\"tag\">Storage<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Storage+Spaces\" rel=\"tag\">Storage Spaces<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a good question.\u00a0 The guidance I had been given was between 4-8 SSDs per JBOD tray.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just found guidance that is a bit more precise.\u00a0 This is what Microsoft says: When purchasing storage for a tiered deployment, we recommend the following number of SSDs in a completely full disk enclosure of different &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=15863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Many SSDs Do I Need For Tiered Storage Spaces?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[180,99,100,120],"class_list":["post-15863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server","tag-hardware","tag-storage","tag-storage-spaces","tag-windows-server-2012-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}