Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage

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."

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I have a similar problem

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I run a large network with thousands of computers, and I recently noticed that there are thousands of keyboards sitting there unused most of the time. And even when they are being used, typically only one or two keys are being depressed, leaving over 100 keys unpressed. Can anyone smart think of a way to put those hundreds of thousands of underutilized keys to work? It just seems like such a waste.