Or one could buy an iPod and host it from there ;-) 160 GB for US$250. Uwe's plan is probably better though...
Jeff On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> wrote: > >> I'm setting up a new CRAN mirror and filled up the disk space the > >> server allotted me. I asked for more, then filled that up. Now the > >> system administrators want me to buy an $800 fiber channel card and a > >> storage device. I'm going to do that, but it does make want to > >> suggest to you that this is a problem. > > > > Why? Just for the mirror? That's nonsense. A 6 year old outdated desktop > > machine (say upgraded to 2GB RAM) with a 1T harddisc for 50$ should be > fine > > for your first tries. The bottleneck will probably be your network > > connection rather than the storage. > > Another perspective is that it costs ~$10 / month to store 68 Gb of > data on amazon's S3. And then you pay 12c / GB for download. > > Hadley > > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Jeffrey Ryan jeffrey.r...@lemnica.com www.lemnica.com www.esotericR.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
