On 3 July 2014 18:49, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote: > Also, 24T is a significant chunk of the space available to Labs in > general; storage is nowhere near as inexpensive in our context as would > be with off-the-shelf customer-grade disks. There's nothing that > prevents us from allocating significant resources to a project that > needs it (to wit: open street maps tile generator) but we're not going > to do that site unseen and without supervision.
As an aside to this: even were you to do it with crappy consumer-grade disks, you're still looking at the better part of a thousand dollars - the cheapest price for a new off-the-shelf disk looks to be about $35/tb, so perhaps eight hundred dollars or more. Presumably even for crappy disks the costs of putting them in a box and plugging it in are still there, too - call it a round thousand for the cheapest option. I haven't been following this case, but I would think saying "let's figure out what you want to do before we spend a thousand dollars on it" would be an eminently reasonable position for Marc to take. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
