Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:05:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Scott Laird <> | Subject | Re: 64-bit block sizes on 32-bit systems |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > people who can afford 2TB of disc can afford to buy a 64-bit processor. >
Sort of. A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that 2 TB is only 25 80GB IDE drives. Given 4 3ware 8-channel IDE controllers and a large enough case, you could probably build a cheap 2TB RAID0 array for ~$10k. You could do RAID5 for only slightly more.
While this isn't exactly a standard, off-the-shelf, general-purpose sort of configuration, it definately has its uses. Be careful assuming that huge amounts of disk storage requires a huge amount of money, or a high level of reliability or performance.
Scott
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