I was just at Villman today and their 750GB SATA2 is 16,000 pesos. So it's much less than PHP 30 / GB now...
Just imagine the storage possibilities of filling a Thumper with those 750GB drives... On 8/2/07, Drexx Laggui [personal] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > Technology should follow business needs, not the other way around. And > in business, it's all about being practical. 1TB HDD's cost about PhP > 30,000 (that's PhP 30 per 1GB) and there's a backlog on ordering. I > know, because I'm currently starting to build Solaris 10 x86 and Linux > FC7 boxes right now, with 5TB's each (for RAID-Z and RAID-5 > implementations, respectively). > > Meanwhile, tape for backup is approximately PhP 1,000 per 80GB per > media. That's about PhP 12.5 per 1GB. And it's more readily available. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
