I think understanding the ratio of volume to activity would be useful as if it's a few 4K movie downloads or Xbox games that drive that utilisation the the ICR storage demand is low.
Sent from my iPhone > On 1 Dec 2016, at 22:39, Paul Mansfield <paul+uk...@mansfield.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 1 December 2016 at 21:09, Leo Vegoda <leo.veg...@icann.org> wrote: >> Paul Mansfield wrote: >>>> On 30 November 2016 at 16:48, Pete Stevens <p...@ex-parrot.com> wrote: >>>> (i) That's going to be a lot of data. Invest in disks. >>> >>> some years ago on another mailing list we speculated how many disks >>> you'd need, and I hacked up a spreadsheet. >> >> It's not clear to me if you attempted to factor in any duplication for RAID. > > nope, it was all rough back of the envelope stuff really, just to try > and get a handle on the volumes of data and thus the physical demands > of gathering it and storing it. You'd really need a robotic > disk/cartridge loader. > >> Also, isn't 100GB/month per household fairly low if media streaming is as >> popular as is often suggested? > > I think as an average it still isn't a *bad* figure - the numbers were > from a few years ago. I know my family of four routinely hit 250GB a > month, but we do watch a lot of netflix. > > /me checks and goes boggled eyed at seeing we hit 500GB in November... > ponders who's been using all the bandwidth! >