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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. Amazing by dirkdidit · · Score: 1, Funny

    He bought 17 of the cheapest IDE drivers
    Technology has come so far that we now have disk space on drivers! Simply amazing. :-)

  2. The standard answer by zeth · · Score: 1, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! ;)

    1. Re:The standard answer by pebs · · Score: 2, Funny

      One word:

      warez

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    2. Re:The standard answer by guile*fr · · Score: 3, Funny

      bah...

      One word:

      pr0n!!!!

    3. Re:The standard answer by FireballFreddy · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're all wrong.

      A highly available, highly redundant data warehouse for storing customer information, product inventory, supplier status, and outstanding orders in a lightning fast database format with a user-friendly front-end, adding to worker productivity while decreasing maintenance downtime, thereby lowering total cost of ownership and increasing company profit.

      Nah, I changed my mind. Porn.

      -FF

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  3. Man, check out that URL... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    anthrax.ds.pg.gda.pl

    That sounds like one mean perl script. First post?

  4. link already dead by doomdog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only 5 posts and the link is already dead. Maybe he should have bought 17 NIC cards instead :-)

    1. Re:link already dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You goto the Automated Teller Machine machine and put in your card, then you enter your Personal Indentification Number number. Then you take your cash to the computer shop and you buy a Network Interface Card card.

  5. can someone smell burning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can almost hear the sound of 17 ide drives grinding to a halt.

  6. Slashdotted by semaj · · Score: 5, Funny

    A friend of mine is building a personal server.

    I'm not sure I'd use the word friend after this. I hope he's not paying for his bandwidth! :-)

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  7. maybe they're cheaper, over there. by timothy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Europe is keeping the robot drivers hushed up, fear of labor unions.

    On the other hand, I think it was a typo -- so I fixed / updated.

    timothy

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  8. He'll need the space . . . by dgrgich · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . I hear Debian's next distro is going to be on 42 DVDs.

    1. Re:He'll need the space . . . by darc · · Score: 2, Funny
      that is sick! 42 dvds @ 5.2 gb each = 218.4 gb!! what os and other junk could they possibly put on to fill that up

      218gb? Probably the new release of emacs 22.0...

      *ducks*

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  9. Man... by terraformer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm glad to see he added a few extra power supplies. When I first read 17 drives in one std PC all I could think of were 34 power cable y splitters daisy chained together.

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    1. Re:Man... by satterth · · Score: 2, Funny
      Yeah, but did you see how he mounted those extra power supplies.

      I looks like he just siliconed them to some metal brackets. Ghetto mod for sure.

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  10. Re:Must not be a very good friend... by Poeir · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, no, no.

    Before it goes into production, he wanted to do a stress test. And what better way to do one of those than to get linked from the front page of Slashdot?

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  11. Re:I fondly recall.. by Squareball · · Score: 2, Funny

    LMAO! YES! I recently went to tour Full Sail here in Orlando (*cough* scam *cough) and they were like 'If you look beind you that server has 3 terrabytes of storage" and I said "Umm.. my home computer has 200gigs.. i'm SO not impressed!"

  12. Re:2TB? That's a lot of PR0N! by ubugly2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you have to ask,you'll never no.

  13. MPAA by DougJohnson · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure the MPAA is coming over right now... obviously 2TB is a significant effort whose only purpose is to circumvent size limitations, and thus the DMCA!

  14. Re:Does anyone else find this stuff boring? by JordanH · · Score: 2, Funny
    • I mean, am I the only person for whom the disk space/memory/processor speed pissing contest is rather dull?

    Uhmm... Let me see. hmmm... uhmm... no, he's interested, so is she, and over there, yep, and everybody in Europe, China, rest of Asia, Africa, check, yep, all interested... Oh, wait, South America... Yep, all interested. US, rest of North America... hmm, Surely someone is Canada not... nope, they're all interested, too. I know! That guy who reads /. from Antartica. Nope, he's interested.

    Yep, you're the only one.

  15. Am I the only person... by darkov · · Score: 5, Funny
    The most juicy part - photos are here.

    ...who was disappointed to not find nearly two terrabytes of pr0n at the other end of the link?

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    1. Re:Am I the only person... by e40 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not only that, he has used only 33MB of that bitchin' disk array. That is a crime.

  16. Re:Why 17? by hazman · · Score: 2, Funny

    He had only 16 trustworthy friends through which he could file the 60$ rebate for each drive purchased. As the coupon says, "One per customer per model".

  17. Hehe... Fear the shell :-) by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just found it funny in a geeky sort of way how he enters commands at the prompt (last picture on the page) like "ls" in the wrong directory and "cd.." without a space. Then he seem to give up and just run Midnight Commander instead. :-)

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    1. Re:Hehe... Fear the shell :-) by inertia187 · · Score: 2, Funny
      I think this is more productive:
      alias dir="echo wise guy, huh?"
      alias cd..="echo nuk-nuk-nuk"
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  18. Naming conventions by sixdotoh · · Score: 1, Funny

    gotta love those creative naming conventions:
    hda
    hdb
    hdc
    hdd
    ...

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  19. Re:Won't last long by corbettw · · Score: 3, Funny

    If he leaves anonymous FTP with write access running it'll take less than a month.

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  20. Is he preparing for the next install of MS Office? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wondering.

  21. Re:20 gig is fine for me by LMariachi · · Score: 4, Funny
    They get paid to have sex with other good looking people. What's so horrible about it?

    Yeah, I can't imagine any possible down side to working in porn.

  22. AH HA! by ellem · · Score: 2, Funny

    First there's all that fruit all over the room
    Then there's that bloody goop in the food processor
    Finally there's the Windows box peeking out from behind the dresser!

    Come on people do I have to spell it out for you?
    Don't you see what's going on?
    Oh the humanity!

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  23. Terabytes gets you chicks! by acidmaple · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did anyone notice what looks to be panties hanging off of the radiator in the fifth picture? I realize that this is a little off topic, but it always makes me happy to see some female underwear strewn about a hardcore geeks computer room. ;) There may be plenty of other explinations for them, but in my heart... I pray for all of us!

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  24. Re:Slashdotted by bobdotorg · · Score: 4, Funny

    No No - it's not actually slashdotted. He's running Norton Disk Doctor. Check back in August, 2007.

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  25. Re:Toppling over... by dracocat · · Score: 2, Funny

    But you have all those spinning drives... They should act as gyros and appose any effort to fall over.

  26. pg.gda.pl - Gdansk Technical University by Technomancer · · Score: 2, Funny

    ds.pg.gda.pl
    DS = Dom Studencki = dorm

    I bet this is going to be dorm divx server :)

  27. Misdirected resources by winston_pr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it just me or does that dude need a new monitor more than anything else ?

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