The new maxtor 40 gig. 7200 rpm drives with 2 mb. buffer .... those would
be really fast in a 10 drive dual raid setup. ... at $300 each that would
make 400 gigabyte linux raidserver for less than 5000$... and I could buy
the parts off the shelf (? raid cards?) at staples! the first 10 meg drive
I used was an 8 inch drive and cost almost that much by itself...
but while I have seen disscussions of how IBM's research can get 100 gb
into a 3.5" drive... I haven't seen anything but the research announcement yet.
brian ;)
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At 09:57 AM 4/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>It sounds an awful lot like a RAID (for example, 10 13GB disks RAID5 array)
>setup, with one "virtual" drive (LUN) that is 100 GB or so...
>
>Or perhaps a machine with multiple drives that TOTAL to 100 GB. Should be
>relatively easy to do, even with IDE drives, if you add one of the Promise
>adapters (and therefore can put 8 IDE devices on the machine). At 33 GB
>each, 8 drives would be a whopper.... 264 GB. Now, add in a SCSI chain
>of 6 disks and a CDROM..... Of course, the cost is also going to be
>a whopper.
>
>Man, I need to win the lottery (wiping drool from chin).
>
>Bill Ward
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 9:51 AM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: RE: Maximum hd size
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>On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote:
>
>> My uncle works for a potash mining company. One of their linux file
>servers
>> has a 100GB HD with 1GB of RAM.
>> That was at least a year ago. Probably, you can get more RAM and larger
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