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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:31:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: General Lee D Mented <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: FWD: Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine (fwd)
>On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
>
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> On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:16:09PM +0100, Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> > Hello Folks --
> >
> > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> > Or even 200 Gbyte?
>
> Joe Greco did this for a news machine last year. He used several wide
> SCSI controllers, and a bunch of 36G dr
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Parag Patel wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 EDT, Robert Sexton wrote:
> > >
> > >Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been
> > >the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE
> > >drive,
It seems Parag Patel wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 EDT, Robert Sexton wrote:
> >
> >Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been
> >the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE
> >drive, while SCSI scales in performance.
>
> How about a sin
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> Hello Folks --
>
> Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> Or even 200 Gbyte?
>
> I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of
> IDE drives? (How many can you have?) Or SCSI? (Again,
> how many can you have?
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:57:48 EDT, Robert Sexton wrote:
>
>Can IDE drives release the bus during seeks? Historically thats been
>the big advantage of SCSI: Two IDE drives are no faster than one IDE
>drive, while SCSI scales in performance.
How about a single IDE (master) drive per controller, tha
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:16:09PM +0100, Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> Hello Folks --
>
> Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> Or even 200 Gbyte?
Joe Greco did this for a news machine last year. He used several wide
SCSI controllers, and a bunch of 36G drives, if I recal
> > > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of
> > > IDE drives? (How many can you have?) Or SCSI? (Again,
> > > how many can you have?).
> >
> > Take 3 or 4 Promise Ultra66/100's and 14 IBM 75G DTLA 307075
> > drives and you should be in business, for a very resonable
> > pr
>
> Nice to hear, and yes vinum is the way to go for redundancy, who is
> going to backup THAT amount of data, and on what :)
Oh, you really still have to backups. But you hope you never have to
restore...
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> > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> Take 3 or 4 Promise Ultra66/100's and 14 IBM 75G DTLA 307075
> drives and you should be in business, for a very resonable
> pricetag.
Might be doable, but it would probably take a custom cabinet to accomodate
the ATA/66 cabling li
Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> > Hello Folks --
> >
> > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
>
> Not yet :)
>
> > Or even 200 Gbyte?
>
> Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me...
>
> > I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this.
It seems Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
>
> > It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> > > Hello Folks --
> > >
> > > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
> >
> > Not yet :)
>
> That's not quite true. We had ~900GB on a NetBSD/Alpha machine
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> > Hello Folks --
> >
> > Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
>
> Not yet :)
That's not quite true. We had ~900GB on a NetBSD/Alpha machine at NASA/Ames.
>
> > Or even 200 Gbyte?
>
> Yup,
It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> Hello Folks --
>
> Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
Not yet :)
> Or even 200 Gbyte?
Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me...
> I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of
> IDE drives? (How many can you have?
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 06:16:09PM +0100, Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?
Done routinely in the commercial world. But cheap..
> I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this. Lots of
What is cheap?
> IDE drives? (How many can you ha
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