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.) --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
