On Friday 19 September 2014 01:23:57 Gregg Eshelman did opine And Gene did reply: > On 9/18/2014 7:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 4 Megabytes? Four megabytes? > > > > I don't come anywhere near saving all the email that goes thru this > > machine. Some lists are expired and cleaned up daily. But 4 of my > > main interests make up for it, the corpus here is north of 15Gb, > > with some of it dating back to the middle of 2002. > > > > 4 megabytes? It boggles my mind that you are being abused like that. > > And putting up with it. > > Not for a long time! Yahoo, Hotmail and most other webmails upgraded > ages ago to unlimited or essentially unlimited storage. > > But 4 megs storage was a big deal circa 1997. Recall then that hard > drives of 2 gig were the biggest seller and 9 gig was pretty much the > largest capacity single drive, mostly reserved for use in servers with > SCA80 Ultra SCSI connection. > > I have 5 300 gig 10,000 RPM SCA80 drives I've been thinking of getting > a server drive cage and backplane for these, building a nice wooden > enclosure then plugging a PCI Ultra SCSI card into one of my desktops. > With RAID5 that would net around 1.2TB of very fast formatted > capacity. (About 1 drive's worth of space is reserved for parity data > in RAID5.)
Chuckle, A nice idea, if that 10k rpm SCA80 scsi drive was actually dependable. We bought some video servers from Apple that had gangs of those drives. They ran nice, for a few weeks. But Apple cannot yet design a box for such AND put adequate cooling in it. When the 2nd one caught fire, Jim said screw it and started building our video servers himself, using slower sata drives in small raids. So we have a stack of those drives, 5 or 6 that survived the burnups, haven't been spun up in years, and servers hundreds of times more dependable. Running linux of course. I was looking for a bigger drive to put on my coco3 a year or so back, and could have had those for the asking, but my coco3's TC3^ interface is scsi-ii, 50 pin. OTOH, it already has a pair of 1Gb drives on it, so it already has a very large sandbox to play in. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
