>I've been in the IT business for quite awhile, and while our 'server
>farms' have gotten considerably smaller as HD technology improved,
heh. I was a network manager for a big Fortune 50 company from 1990
until 1995 (and again for about 18 months in 98/00... long story,
don't ask.) and I recall buying three very impressive RAID towers for
one of our Sun SparcServers in 1992. It used the very first
commercially available 3.5" half-height > 2 gig drives (they were
2.1g). Each RAID unit had 5 drives, dual power supplies, and 32megs
of write-ahead cache (a phenomenal amount of RAM memory in those
days)... the price tag for this 10.5 (unformatted, 8.2 usable in a
raid 5 config) gigabytes?
$52,000 each.
Yep, that's fifty two thousand dollars.
What does 10 gigs of space cost these days in a 3.5" HD (if you could
even find a drive that "small"!)? Less than $100 I'd guess.
>I was still impressed with the how much I could put on a 1GB
>harddrive on my new 2400 four years ago....
Indeed.
>at least until I installed MS Office.
heh, and this surprised you how, Ralph? =)
--chuck goolsbee
geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>
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