On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 10:49 +1300, Don Gould wrote: > He's got a 2tb system that cost him $20k and he's got 75gb left.
I know that feeling, nearly 1.2Tb of my storage at home is images. My raw images are 12 or 18Mb (depending on which camera I use) and processed images can be up to 120-150Mb. Crazy stuff.. But then again I've got clear of 20,000 film images indexed as well, I know which I'd prefer... > He also should have 10GE from the server to his desktop for photo > processing and indexing. The current 1GE is a bottle neck. No idea > what that stuff costs (hint - anyone). Prohibitive. We put in a 10G backbone for the new LAN at work, the top layer switches were clear of $15k each. A good option is to use dedicated multi-channel 1Ge cards with (multiple) crossover cables to the server, using channel-bonding you can get a good suck on the line. > Eventually, we're also talking about putting his stuff on line, so we're > going to need a second box. I'm suggesting that the second box should Yeah, but you wouldn't put the 50Mb finished images on the net, they'd be small files. Even then, my site has nearly a gig of stuff on in the private proofs, and I think the public stuff is over 500Mb, although I stopped adding things to the public gallery a year ago. Even for that size of storage you can still get hosting plans cheaper than collocation. Co-lo in NZ is not cheap from any of the vendors I looked at. Good luck. :-)
