Quoting Carl Friedberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:10:54PM
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> Disk log size is less of a concern now than in the past. Today, you can buy
> disk storage at prices that make me cry ($180 for a 13GB EIDE drive; $1,500
> for a 10,000 rpm 18GB UW Scsi StorageWorks (Compaq/DEC) brick). I remember
> when disk storage was measured in megabytes, and 10MB was considered a big
> disk (that was the mid 1980's, in case any of you youngster's weren't born
> yet). So, let's try to extrapolate a little bit: we have very big drives and
> very fast processors, and very scary security problems. Large logs are a
> solution, not a problem, IMHO.
Hmm, that is an argument that gave us those memory hungry PC apps. It is not
just log size, but also access time if we have redundant info on the disk.
I have set up loghosts with large raid arrays for log storage (>100GB) and I
am still worried about disk spaye and access time.
Quoting EIDE prices is surely not the right way. I do want reliable RAID
systems for production machines.
cheers
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