Big, fast disk toys

[Kevin Brown]

> > Of course using Raid0 gets you no data protection :) .
> >
> > Didn't Slashdot have a pointer a few months ago on building a TB storage server
> > for under $5K?  Sounds like an interesting idea for a multimedia box.  Don't
> 
> Do you have a link to that TB storage server article?  There were a
> couple of Linux-based SAN projects going awhile back but the ones I read
> about have gone dormant. You can never have too many bottomless storage
> pits :-)

Jan 2002
http://www.kcgeek.com/content/features/1011742784.Peloquin.feature/feature.html

July 2001
http://staff.sdsc.edu/its/terafile/

> > know what else would need 4 or more 100GB drives (or even 2 or more) unless you
> > are recording whole TV show seasons, movies, mp3s, ogg vorbises, etc...
> 
> Swarms of users, mostly. In our case it'll almost model a gargantuan
> Netware 5.1 server that needs a software  upgrade.  It routinely has 450
> - 500 users logged in, and somewhere around 3 million files.  We need to
> bring up "Native File Access for Macintosh" by either a directory
> services upgrade (NDS 7 to eDirectory), or take it to Netware 6.  The
> server has about 450GB online (at RAID 5), but it's not all in use.

Yeah, figured businesses would, was just wondering what a user at home would
need with that much capacity.