Steve Rowe [sar...@gmail.com] wrote: > On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > > Laptop disks are slower than the EC2 disks.
> My laptop disk is an SSD. So it's not a disk? ...Sorry, couldn't resist. Unfortunately Amazon only has two SSD-backed solutions and they are #3 and #2 in terms of cost/hour (http://www.ec2instances.info/). To make matters worse, one of them has only 240GB of storage, which leaves the $3.10/hour for 2TB of SSD as the only choice right now. At Berlin Buzzwords 2013 there was a very interesting talk about indexing 24 billion tweets, with the clear conclusion that it was a lot cheaper to buy your own hardware (with SSDs) instead of going Amazon. At that point in time, for that kind of corpus yadda yadda. There's a recording at http://2012.berlinbuzzwords.de/sessions/you-know-search-querying-24-billion-records-900ms Regards, Toke Eskildsen
