The Amazing $5k Terabyte Array

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, 2002 @12:44AM from the do-it-yourself dept.

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").

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Re:Mirror Usenet? by Cramer · 2002-01-30 03:25 · Score: 4, Informative

A full USENET news feed (everything one can find) will exceed 120GB per day. It'll almost fill a DS3. (And we were receiving a "crappy" test feed from UUNet.) So, minus @alt.binaries.*, one could mirror USENET for a few years. With the binaries, it'll hold you for about a week, 2 at the most.