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1.8TB Of Disk Space In A (Semi-)Normal PC

Posted by timothy on from the you-will-do-what-sircam-demands dept.

zdzichu writes "A friend of mine is building a personal server. He bought 17 of the cheapest IDE drives available and used Linux' LVM to get them together. The result? Almost two terabytes of disk space in regular x86 PC. The most juicy part - photos are here. For an operating system, he first tried the enterprise-ready PLD Linux Distribution, later he reinstalled Slackware Linux." Update: 03/01 20:24 GMT by T : I'm sure that should be "drives" and not "drivers" :)

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  1. 2TB for what? by MisterFancypants · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Its not like there's any good video editing or music editing software for Linux. I mean, Linux sucks, so what is he gonna fill that 2TB with?

    Yeah you heard me right, Linux sucks. Gonna mod me down? Well then YOU SUCK TOO.

  2. 20 gig is fine for me by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Who needs this space.

    Before you answer porn consider how much money this array cost and how much money it would cost to actually *pay* for the xxx dvd's.

    Most of the kazaa is crap anyway and transfer rates are terrible. It seems there a few mpg's that people like and the other %95 are wasting space and are terrible. For the few good movies and lots of garbage that you actually pay for with the expensive hard drives, you could save money and not be a criminal by just buying the good dvd's. Sure we all hate the RIAA/MPAA but pornographers have not been assholes as of yet and do not deserve to be ripped off. After all the stigma sucks for pornstars and they at least deserved to be paid for their horrible jobs.

    I need to focus on school so I purposely took out the ethernet card( internet addiction) and deleted most of my porn. I have so much space free it is silly. Even when I was on kazaa I had close to 10 gigs free. I use another 20 gig drive for Linux/FreeBSD and that is the only reason why someone would want a large hard drive. Its easier to buy too small ones to make dual boot life easier.

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  3. I'm thinking.. SO WHAT? by way2trivial · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have 340 GB directly.
    I know people with 200 Megabytes

    I have 1700X the capacity of the guy with 200 mb

    1.8 tb, is only about six times what I have,
    1.8tb, is just a little ahead of the pack- that's all

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