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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. 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?

  2. 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 :-)

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

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

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. He'll need the space . . . by dgrgich · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. 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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  8. 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!

  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Re:The standard answer by guile*fr · · Score: 3, Funny

    bah...

    One word:

    pr0n!!!!

  13. 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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  14. 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.

  15. 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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  16. 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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