> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no
> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this,
> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users.
You seem to assume a 3½" form factor which either requires a "large"
desktop or an external enclosure.
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 01:11:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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Nice line up.
> I wonder what kind of drives are used nowadays in big datacenters (and
> whether the prices they pay for them looks anything like the ones
> above).
One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes
Stefan Monnier writes:
Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote:
> On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier
wrote:
>>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no
>>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this,
>>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> That makes 3½" form factor even more dead than I thought (two 4TB 2½"
> drives should offer better performance than one 8GB 3½" drive and use
> less space, not sure about power consumption).
Erm. You just doubled your failure rate. There are times when
that's
Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote:
> On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no
>>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this,
>>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users.
>>
For me, testing distros in an old Mac is way more than enough; I'll burn
ISO Images; netinstalls.
I agree that it's better to learn fewer things thorough than many quite
shallow, good advice
Gunnar
.
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, 18:18 Stefan Monnier, wrote:
> > Second, the price of spinning disks is
On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote:
Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no
sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this,
and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users.
You seem to assume a 3½" form factor which either
Hi,
On 2021-08-03 8:18 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Dan,
> 40-50% of my ssd, is that correct
> For i386 or amd64? If I take both
> I'll still have 149gb. Interesting. I can do it, because the original
> need of the ssd evaporated. Thus it's possible to try both into the old
> mac(hine). But in
Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Dan,
> 40-50% of my ssd, is that correct
> For i386 or amd64? If I take both
> I'll still have 149gb. Interesting. I can do it, because the original need
> of the ssd evaporated. Thus it's possible to try both into the old
> mac(hine). But in that list you linked to, are a
Dan,
40-50% of my ssd, is that correct
For i386 or amd64? If I take both
I'll still have 149gb. Interesting. I can do it, because the original need
of the ssd evaporated. Thus it's possible to try both into the old
mac(hine). But in that list you linked to, are a lot more than those two
ISO
Hi,
On 2021-08-02 3:35 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Hi again.
> This is an unusual question &/or project, maybe utterly stupid, maybe
> temporary:
> I bought a 1 TB external SSD (Intenso) for later commercial use -in my
> company.
> Meanwhile I want to use it for something else: To burn an entire
Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> Hi again.
> This is an unusual question &/or project, maybe utterly stupid, maybe
> temporary:
> I bought a 1 TB external SSD (Intenso) for later commercial use -in my
> company.
> Meanwhile I want to use it for something else: To burn an entire Debian
> distro on it.
> I
Hi again.
This is an unusual question &/or project, maybe utterly stupid, maybe
temporary:
I bought a 1 TB external SSD (Intenso) for later commercial use -in my
company.
Meanwhile I want to use it for something else: To burn an entire Debian
distro on it.
I guess it`ll be more than enough space
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