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Interview with Brewster Kahle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the got-your-back-man dept.

Netmonger writes "A fascinating interview with the man behind The Wayback Machine. Some specs from the article: "It's 150-odd standard PC cases, with four drives in each.. 'Over 100 terabytes.. As plain text in book form, that'd be over 3000 miles of shelf space.." All I can say is.. Wow!"

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  1. Wayback technology by watchful.babbler · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's an excellent interview with Kahle on technical details at O'Reilly's own archive -- here.

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  2. Another site, with pics by RhBaby · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.mindjack.com/feature/archive.html

    In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote it, so be gentle.

  3. Re:Why only four? by jandrese · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably the limiting factor there is the PCI bus. Modern ATA HDDs tend to saturate vanilla PCI busses (which is why most chipsets have custom busses between the north and southbridge these days). Add ATA cards and your PCI bus quickly becomes saturated and not very good for serving webpages. Worse, since the NIC probably sits on the PCI bus as well, you can easily starve your NIC with too many ATA devices on PCI ATA controllers.

    I know, I have a fileserver at home that has this exact problem, but I don't care if my fileserver is slow so it's not a problem.

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    I read the internet for the articles.