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

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

  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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