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Cc: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za>, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RC2 Available
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Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav (des@des.no) writes:
> > Not cost-effective?  What is the "street price" of 16 GB disk space
> > these days?  About the same as a couple of Big Macs?
> That's roughly half of a common 36G SCSI drive, and still a fairly
> significant chunk of a 73G one.  Granted, you probably don't get all
> that many high-memory systems with just one or two dinky disks.

Don't blame me for your decision to use the most expensive type of
storage available, especially when it has been conclusively shown that
expensive server-grade disks are no more reliable than cheap consumer-
grade disks.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no