Storage configurations and benchmarks
RAID 10 NVMe defaults, Optane PMem journals, and when to deviate.
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Our default storage configuration on dedicated servers is two NVMe modules in RAID 1 for boot and four NVMe modules in RAID 10 for data on Pro and High-Perf tiers. This gets you predictable single-digit-ms tail latency and zero rebuild storms on a single drive failure.
Workloads that benefit from a separate write-intent log can opt into an Optane Persistent Memory journal: 256 GB of PMem in App Direct mode, used as the write log for a Postgres or MySQL primary. Throughput improvement on write-heavy OLTP is typically 30–50%.
For object-store-heavy or backup-target workloads, we offer all-HDD chassis on request: 12 × 18 TB SAS in RAID-Z2 or similar layouts. Pricing is custom; email sales@.
On benchmarks: we publish a quarterly fio profile per SKU at vintonyhost.com/blog. The numbers are independently reproducible — same fio script, same hardware, run from a fresh provision.