A couple months ago when I actually had a job for a while I was seriously
thinking of buying and installing a whole case (30 units) of 100gig drives
in a server for myself. The problem I was running into was finding a case
able to handle that many drives that didn't cost a fortune and had a good
enough cooling system. I think I had decided that it'd be cheaper/easier
to buy a couple cheaper machines with about 10 hdd's per machine and tie
them together with NFS. My only real problem was that I didn't think that
Linux's LVM could work over NFS. Does anyone know of a way to implement
the LVM over a network? Not that all 30 drives need to appear as one
logical device but it'd be nice for some big projects. I figure 3
terabytes of space sitting in my living room would be a major geek high
and I really could/would use that much disk space so it'd be a cool
project.
The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.
;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <mogmios@mlug.missouri.edu>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/
On 22 Jun 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Now that 80GB HHDs are $85 and 512MB PC133 SDRAMs are $54
> (both from Pricewatch and incl s/h), it's cheaper than ever...
>
> 13x 80GB HDDs (data) $1,105
> 1x 20GB HDD (/boot,/usr)$ 50
> 3x 512MB PC133 SDRAM $ 162
> Server case + PS $ 350
> Athlon XP2000 + MB $ 250
> 3x EIDE PCI controllers $ 75
> Cheap video card $ 25
> cables $ 100
> floppy, CD-RW $ 100
> -----
> 2,217
>
> Of course, we won't need KB or mouse because this is a server
> and we'll just ssh into it (since we're using Linux or *BSD).
>
> By comparison:
> In the 06 Feb 1996 PC Magazine, on the back page is a comparably
> priced Dell PC (price-adjusted, since it has a 15" monitor).
> Dell Dimension XPS P133c for $2,499:
> - 133MHz Pentium (not even MMX...)
> - 16MB EDO RAM
> - 256KB cache
> - 1GB HDD
> - 15" monitor
> - Video card: PCI, 64 bit, 1MB video RAM
> - 6x CD-ROM drive
> - Win 95 and Office Pro 95
>
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