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jgillich · on April 17, 2014

    287 MB/sec / $20 ~ 14 MB/sec/dollar

I don't think MB/sec/dollar makes sense simply because disk speed does not scale. If you need a (very) fast disk, Linode is obviously the better choice.

lunixbochs · on April 17, 2014

That's only when comparing $5 to $20. Does the $20 DO model also have 287MB/s?

TylerE · on April 17, 2014

If the difference matters, a $5 DO node likely isn't cutting it.

chacham15 · on April 18, 2014

Thats not the issue. The issue is if (and only if) you have a perfectly parallelizable task, you would be better off getting 4 x $5 DO servers with a rate of (4 x 287) 1148 MB/sec which is much better than 816 MB/sec for the same price. Or you could even get 3 $5 servers and have a rate of (3 x 287) 861 MB/sec which is still better and also cheaper.

weixiyen · on April 17, 2014

It's not like the $20 DO instance is going to be faster