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Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

kernspaltung writes "I manage a network of roughly a hundred Windows boxes, all of them with hard drives of at least 40GB — many have 80GB drives and larger. Other than what's used by the OS, a few applications, and a smattering of small documents, this space is idle. What would be a productive use for these terabytes of wasted space? Does any software exist that would enable pooling this extra space into one or more large virtual networked drives? Something that could offer the fault-tolerance and ease-of-use of ZFS across a network of PCs would be great for small-to-medium organizations."

5 of 448 comments (clear)

  1. Slashvertisement for wuala? by jiadran · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This sounds like somebody is asking for wuala. Possible slashvertisement?

  2. Re:Not without heavy *use* of other resources by DarrenBaker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm a troll, and he's modded +5 insightful? Must be a lot of non-English speakers here.

  3. Re:Not without heavy *use* of other resources by OS_Neutral · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I find it hypocritical and mildly ironic that you use the hyphenate "non-Anglopohone" in criticizing someone else for using unnecessarily complex speech that may not be easily understood by non-native speakers. And, for the record, the performance monitors on my Windows systems tell me the "percentage utilization" of a given resource, not the "percentage use".

  4. Re:not enough info by jaymz411 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265982,00.html

  5. Re:Not without heavy *use* of other resources by cypherz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "By the way, what is a PHB?"

    It's a Dilbert reference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert

    "PHB" is the short form of "Pointy Haired Boss".

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