Quoting Ilya Konstantinov, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct: > >By the way, I'm curious, how much does a, say, simple 40GB IDE disk costs > >nowadays? With disk space per dollar growing exponentially, maybe there > >should be a reason to ever remove old stuff? :) > >
I believe the sweet spot is now 120 gig (in $/meg). the problem is that iglu is indeed carrying 6 disks in its belly (2 of 9G and 4 of 18G). the options are: ask HPaq/SGI/Aduva/someone to get us another disk arr�y (external) and hook up more disks, and get Actcom's concsent for the extra space it will take. or kick out some of the drives (if they are installed in part internally and not in SCSI-only bays in the front) and get IDE drive(s) instead, sponsored by some linux-loving company. http://fiasco.org.il/maxNeighbours640.jpg looks to me like there are only a few external bays, so a disk or two of 80-120 gig can come instead of one or both of the two 9 gigers. > Was 750 sheqels when I bought my IBM 60GXP (*ouch*) a year ago. Must've > dropped since then. well, GBY, is it too early to work your contacts at SGI? > The trouble is - we're out of IDE connections there (right, Muli? Guy?), > whereas we can connect as many SCSIs as we wish. how did you get to that conclusion? I see nothing but a CDROM on the IDE... (hda). no disks. ergo 3 free devices to add. two hard disks if you want to maintain performance. > Say we somehow manage to buy a hard drive - e.g. of the August Penguins > money - for what sake it is? For sake of becoming a kernel.org official > mirror once again? For sake of mirroring some ISOs we currently don't > mirror? For a high profile mirror like full RedHat or full Debian I'm > afraid we need some 40GB for each mirror... two disks of 120 will fix that... :) -- Street crawler Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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