Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the now-thats-a-lotta-pr0n dept.
Delta-9 writes "Here is a writeup on how to combine 6 200GB IDE drives into a small tower and hack together some firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive." Very cool project, both technically and aesthetically.
When I wired up 5 60MB SCSI-25 drives back in the day to get a whooping capacity of 5x60MB...
And still that amount of data is almost half of one of today's most popular RO mediums.. =)
But none the less, nice article and with the disk prices these day's it's getting closer within rage for many of the people that spend that much on electronics... I sure do =P
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Slashdotted again...
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c_oflynn
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So you've got a terrabyte of data, but can it handle Slashdot?
Re:Slashdotted again...
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green+pizza
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So you've got a terrabyte of data, but can it handle Slashdot?
1.2 TB RAID -- $900 386-based Web Server -- $0.25 The satisfaction of a slashdotting -- priceless
Re:Slashdotted again...
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Tackhead
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> > So you've got a terrabyte of data, but can it handle Slashdot? > > Increasing the amount of data without increasing the bandwidth is not the way to avoid slashdoting.
Hell, the guy could have had an OC-48, we're talking about a Slashdotting, even Firewire's gonna be a bottleneck. (Those poor, poor, poor drives. He should give them to me.)
Re:Slashdotted again...
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s20451
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It is my purpose in life to get Slashdot to post a link to a station wagon full of DVDs.
he used fire wire and not usb or scsi - or well anything else. this will save us from the hundred or so "Why not firewire?" posts every time somebody discusses some other method of moving data around.
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-- It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
What is this tear-uh-bite that you speak of? I've never heard of such a thing. Please tell us how big this drive is in units of Libraries of Congress or in terms of how high a stack of floppies it would take.
-- "People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
Or better, how many Libraries of Congress could those 3.5" floppies fill? Well, lets see.... they would fill a room 40ft x 22ft x 10ft. What that's all? And they could only pave half a mile of road. Quite lame.
However you could stitch together some fine floppy-disk jump-suits for 10 blue whales! Much more impressive.
Click on any picture for a very high resolution photo. Some of these really move me.
*snif...*... Getting a little verklempt...:)
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Wah!
In other news the RIAA demands 45 trillion $
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NoSuchGuy
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In other news the RIAA accused of theft of 300,000,000 (three hundred million) MP3s (4MB each MP3). The lawyers of the RIAA demand a compensation of 150,000 USD per stolen song. This summs up to 45,000,000,000,000,000 USD or 45 trillion USD. That is 9 times the GNP of the USA in 1998. The shares of the RIAA members are going balistic.
Further more these lawyers argue there is no legimate use of 1200GB of disk space for a private person.
-- Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
c'mon you were all thinking it...
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Anonymous Coward
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Slashdot Mirror
This guy is wishing he hadn't posted 3 megs worth of pictures.
When I wired up 5 60MB SCSI-25 drives back in the day to get a whooping capacity of 5x60MB...
And still that amount of data is almost half of one of today's most popular RO mediums.. =)
But none the less, nice article and with the disk prices these day's it's getting closer within rage for many of the people that spend that much on electronics... I sure do =P
What brave karma-worthy soul will have the courage to post a mirror?
So you've got a terrabyte of data, but can it handle Slashdot?
Just dug up an old receipt just recently for a Seagate 20MB hard drive, 1992.
Total: $495.24
he used fire wire and not usb or scsi - or well anything else. this will save us from the hundred or so "Why not firewire?" posts every time somebody discusses some other method of moving data around.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a 1.2TB firewire drive if you can't serve any content from it?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
... 1.2x10^12 bytes or 1.2x1024^4 bytes?
No no no - it's not slashdotted. He's just running Norton Disk Doctor. Check back in November.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
What is this tear-uh-bite that you speak of? I've never heard of such a thing. Please tell us how big this drive is in units of Libraries of Congress or in terms of how high a stack of floppies it would take.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
Do you think he might be compensating for something, eh?
</Shrek voice>
Please visit my archive of art work photos for this project. Click on any picture for a very high resolution photo. Some of these really move me.
Something tells me he's regretting that right now.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
*snif...*
Wah!
In other news the RIAA accused of theft of 300,000,000 (three hundred million) MP3s (4MB each MP3). The lawyers of the RIAA demand a compensation of 150,000 USD per stolen song. This summs up to 45,000,000,000,000,000 USD or 45 trillion USD. That is 9 times the GNP of the USA in 1998. The shares of the RIAA members are going balistic.
Further more these lawyers argue there is no legimate use of 1200GB of disk space for a private person.
Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
"Gee, that's a lot of pron"
/. right?
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