> "Limited resources"??? Disk space is practically free these
> days! Last week's local ads had a 27GB disk for $150;
> that's about $5 per gigabyte.
> You and your co-workers are worth a lot more than
> cheap computer hardware - don't limit yourselves that way.
You know, I've been hearing this spiel about cheap computer disks for years
-- in fact, I recall that Brian Berliner, in his original CVS paper, said
that link farms and other such fripperies to save disk space were silly.
However, I have not yet been lucky enough to live in an environment that is
free of diskspace wars. Sure, PC disks may be cheap but file server disks
still seem to be considerably more expensive. I was recently quoted $2500
per gigabyte for file server disks on one of our few Lake local disk servers
capable of running AFS. After complaining, they reduce the price to $12,000
for nine GB in the nevertheless much higher than PC disk prices.
High-performance RAID disks apparently.
The disparity between PC disk prices and server disk prices is bad enough
that my group is considering rolling our own pseudo server buying PC disks
another them to get a terabyte or so of storage.
Sorry if this isn't so CVS specific, but a worthwhile piece of enlightenment
to the comment about cheap disks.
