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

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

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 1, 2003 @08:20AM 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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fristy ps0t by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-01 08:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

the darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
C'mon 6 by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · 2003-03-01 08:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Please let me get sixth post. If I get sixth post, I swear I will go outside for once.

Mustn't rush. Must be patient.

Go!

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Porn by D4Vr4nt · 2003-03-01 08:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That makes for a lot of large porn collection. 0_o

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YOU SIR ARE AN ALL AMERICAN HERO NOT UNLIKE GI JOE by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-01 08:33 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i love rappers that whine about police harrassment in one verse and then brag about selling kilos of coke in the next.
YOU ARE SO FIRED! by YOU+ARE+SO+FIRED! · 2003-03-01 08:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'll give you a great reason to go outside: You're fired. How's that? Now, go enjoy the sunshine and unemployment benefits. Maybe your next employer will be more lenient towards sixth post failing types.
Re:Hey, timothy's ok by rob-fu · 2003-03-01 08:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm sorry Timothy. I think it was Michael I was thinking about.
use? by pummer · 2003-03-01 08:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

what's the use of a computer lacking CD-ROM? It's cool and all, but purposeful? I think not.
Call me perceptive... by darnok · 2003-03-01 10:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

but I'm betting this guy is single.

That picture of the PC plus two towers sitting on the floor in the bedroom, PC case jammed behind a chest of drawers, the metal "spikes" of the towers sitting on polished floorboards - I'm not seeing a lot of women in this guy's life.

And that's before I noticed the underwear peeking out of the drawer...

Some of the other pics show a significant lack of furniture. Well at least with all these drives spinning, he probably won't need too much in the way of extra heating appliances.