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    <title>TechSNAP - Episodes Tagged with “Fio”</title>
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  <title>428: RAID Reality Check</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</itunes:subtitle>
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Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</p>

<p>Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-worlds-fastest-processor-epyc-rome-7fx2-cpus">AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs</a></li><li><a title="AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=amd-epyc-7f52&amp;num=1">AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/new-cloudflare-tool-can-tell-you-if-your-isp-has-deployed-bgp-fixes/">New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes</a></li><li><a title="Is BGP safe yet?" rel="nofollow" href="https://isbgpsafeyet.com/">Is BGP safe yet?</a></li><li><a title="RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/">RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing</a></li><li><a title="Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer" rel="nofollow" href="https://trstringer.com/systemd-timer-vs-cronjob/">Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer</a></li><li><a title="systemd/Timers - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers">systemd/Timers - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="systemd.time (Time format docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html">systemd.time (Time format docs)</a></li><li><a title="systemd.timer (Unit docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html">systemd.timer (Unit docs)</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We dive deep into the world of  RAID, and discuss how to choose the right topology to optimize performance and resilience.</p>

<p>Plus Cloudflare steps up its campaign to secure BGP, and why you might want to trade in cron for systemd timers.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-worlds-fastest-processor-epyc-rome-7fx2-cpus">AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs</a></li><li><a title="AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&amp;item=amd-epyc-7f52&amp;num=1">AMD EPYC 7F52 Linux Performance - AMD 7FX2 CPUs Further Increasing The Fight Against Intel Xeon Review</a></li><li><a title="Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/">Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight</a></li><li><a title="New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/new-cloudflare-tool-can-tell-you-if-your-isp-has-deployed-bgp-fixes/">New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes</a></li><li><a title="Is BGP safe yet?" rel="nofollow" href="https://isbgpsafeyet.com/">Is BGP safe yet?</a></li><li><a title="RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/">RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing</a></li><li><a title="Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer" rel="nofollow" href="https://trstringer.com/systemd-timer-vs-cronjob/">Why I Prefer systemd Timers Over Cron – Thomas Stringer</a></li><li><a title="systemd/Timers - ArchWiki" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers">systemd/Timers - ArchWiki</a></li><li><a title="systemd.time (Time format docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.time.html">systemd.time (Time format docs)</a></li><li><a title="systemd.timer (Unit docs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html">systemd.timer (Unit docs)</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>415: It's All About IOPS</title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:15:00 -0700</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>We share our simple approach to disk benchmarking and explain why you should always test your pain points.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>34:29</itunes:duration>
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  <description>We share our simple approach to disk benchmarking and explain why you should always test your pain points.
Plus the basics of solid state disks and how to evaluate which model is right for you. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>We share our simple approach to disk benchmarking and explain why you should always test your pain points.</p>

<p>Plus the basics of solid state disks and how to evaluate which model is right for you.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="History of hard disk drives" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives">History of hard disk drives</a> &mdash; Wikipedia</li><li><a title="How to Buy the Right SSD: A Guide for 2019 " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-buying-guide,5602.html">How to Buy the Right SSD: A Guide for 2019 </a> &mdash; Tom's Hardware</li><li><a title="The Development and History of Solid State Drives (SSDs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.semiconductorstore.com/blog/2014/The-Development-and-History-of-Solid-State-Drives-SSDs/854/">The Development and History of Solid State Drives (SSDs)</a></li><li><a title="Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance" rel="nofollow" href="https://louwrentius.com/understanding-iops-latency-and-storage-performance.html">Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance</a></li><li><a title="FIO cheat sheet" rel="nofollow" href="https://jrs-s.net/2015/11/23/fio-cheat-sheet/">FIO cheat sheet</a> &mdash; Jim's Blog</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>We share our simple approach to disk benchmarking and explain why you should always test your pain points.</p>

<p>Plus the basics of solid state disks and how to evaluate which model is right for you.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="History of hard disk drives" rel="nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives">History of hard disk drives</a> &mdash; Wikipedia</li><li><a title="How to Buy the Right SSD: A Guide for 2019 " rel="nofollow" href="https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-buying-guide,5602.html">How to Buy the Right SSD: A Guide for 2019 </a> &mdash; Tom's Hardware</li><li><a title="The Development and History of Solid State Drives (SSDs)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.semiconductorstore.com/blog/2014/The-Development-and-History-of-Solid-State-Drives-SSDs/854/">The Development and History of Solid State Drives (SSDs)</a></li><li><a title="Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance" rel="nofollow" href="https://louwrentius.com/understanding-iops-latency-and-storage-performance.html">Understanding IOPS, latency and storage performance</a></li><li><a title="FIO cheat sheet" rel="nofollow" href="https://jrs-s.net/2015/11/23/fio-cheat-sheet/">FIO cheat sheet</a> &mdash; Jim's Blog</li></ul>]]>
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