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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. Hmm ./ed allready by brejc8 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder if he is hosting the site from his computer.
    The disks wont do much good agains the /. effect

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  2. sigh... by Jeedo · · Score: 0, Redundant
    and to think all of that is probably going to be used for his pr0n collecton

  3. /.ed Before 10th Post by kawaichan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Haha, I guess all those extra HD space did help at all.

    May be he should spend more on better connection instead :)

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