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

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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Great, now for the..

[Anonymous Coward]

..trolls that'll insist we need this in every PC.

*sigh* Time to head them off.

After ripping my entire CD collection to disk, I can't fill up 30 GB, let alone the 120 GB that exists within all of my systems combined.

I don't rip at 128kb/s, either. :P

Unless you're doing research of sorts, creating a massive database, editting video, or stealing movies - you don't need a single TB. Joe Average doesn't need a TB or more of disk space. Joe Above Average doesn't need a TB or more of disk space.

'sides, IDE drives? The gods help the fool who actually has a TB of info on IDE drives. How do you back things up? (And I hope you do - IDE sucks ass.)

Anyway, from a pure pissing contest point of view, this is still extremely cool, and would probably scare the living crap out of most people. (People seem impressed when I mention my total capacity of 120 GB. Hmm. Damn, I need a TB to make them urinate upon themselves. ;))

Well done.

Re:Does anyone else find this stuff boring?

[Sanity]

Go into your preferences, and put a check box beside 'hardware'. You'll never see one of these stories again.

Perhaps, but there are many hardware stories that I do find interesting (generally those which aren't simply about incremental performance improvements) which I also wouldn't see.

If someone creates some new memory which leads to an order of magnitude increase, then that is interesting, but just because someone can string together a bunch of conventional hard drives, that is hardly news - everyone knows that it is possible.

Re:Are linux drivers ready?

[mabinogi]

Read the post again...
2TB was the limit...not 2GB