On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:15:43PM -0700, Glew, Andy wrote:
> 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.
They charge that much because people are paying it.
Then again, I wouldn't recommend building against such hardware either.
Such a system would be great for the CVS repository, but not for the
development area.
Use cheap local disks for development purposes. Avoid network based file
systems at all costs. If you check in early, check in often, if a disk
goes belly up, you won't lose much. Hardly even worth bothering to do
backups on.
mrc
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