2008/12/25 geni <[email protected]>: > I'd more be thinking of handing over a stack of hard drives to > wikimedia chapter reps at wikimania .
2TB external hard disk, gzip on the fly (gzipping is faster than the network - remember, Wikimedia gzips data going between internal servers in the same rack because CPU is cheaper than network!) - USB 2.0 is 480Mbit/sec, that's 60MB/sec, that's a gzipped dump at about 9 hours 20 minutes a terabyte assuming a near-perfect USB interface. Long-winded, but all we need is to custom-build a hard disk duplicator for I/O efficiency. A simple matter of hardware design. Then it should be no more inherently painful than duplicating VHS video tapes. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
