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The Amazing $5k Terabyte Array
An anonymous reader writes: "Running out of space on your local disk? How about a Terabyte array for only a few thousand dollars. This article at KCGeek.com shows how to put together 1000 Gigs of hard drive space for the cost of a few desktop computers."
I could rip my entire anime collection for instant access! Rip all my
CDs and still have .9 Terabytes left! Maybe Mirror Usenet! I guess
the simple truth is that now that 100 gig drives are a couple hundred
bucks, we now have the ability to store anything we reasonably could
need (unless you define "Reasonable" as "I need to store DNA Sequences").
Nobody should ever have need for more than 640 kB of RAM Bill Gates
Simularities anyone?
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Check out this article referenced by slashdot on July 20 2001.
The nice thing about this article is that the people building it at SDSC really took extreme care in getting quality components that would work together to build a reliable, solid system, and still didn't spend more than $5K for a terabyte file server. In particular, the tradeoff of disk speed vs. power consumption was extremely insightful.
I built one of these to their spec for my company, and I couldn't be happier. It's worked flawlessly since then. It's not clear if the Escalade boards are still available -- 3ware had said that they were discontinuing them, but they still appear to be for sale.
thad
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
1) "Compress" at a higher rate than the CD uses (I've seen this)
2) Use POV Ray to render Lord of the Rings for the cinema
3) Keep every src and every
4) Set the Linux swap space to be "500Gb" because you've upgraded the Kernel to the new VM stuff and it looks cool
5) Install Windows XP+ in two years time, with Office XP+.
Imagine that "Minimum Reqs: 1TB of available disk space"
It will happen
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
Why stop there? You could store four base pairs per byte with the most basic of compression schemes. You could probably compress it down much, much further.
But be careful with that compression thing! If you compress the DNA too much, you could end up like Minime
The first thing that runs through your mind when you see the above headline is: "Wow, imagine a Beowolf cluster..."
Argh.
And remember kids: Never trust a computer you can actually lift.
1 Promise 6 channel PCI ide raid controller, 99$US.
12 Maxtor 160gb ata133, 270$ each
1920gb of Pr0n and other goodies, priceless!
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
using a tb array for anime is like having one of your turds bronzed.
well, dvds belong in a shelf, not on your harddrive :-)
shelf: 20$
storage: 100 dvds
soo, basiclly you can store 100x7 gb on a shelf for 20 bucks. thats cheap!
1 Terrabyte solution - $2500
All the pr0n you could ever watch - $1,000,000
The look on your Mom's face when she clicks on AsianDogAssRape10.mpg - Priceless
This
Moore's law has been in effect for some time since then, and the human genome hasn't gotten any bigger in the meantime.
In fact, the EMBL database (all known DNA + protein sequences) nearly tripled in size within the 11 months of Nov. 1999 - Aug. 2000 [Stoesser, 2001]. Shake your Moore's law at that figure, matey.