Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 23:03:26 -0600 From: Steve Kaczkowski <steve@inc.net> To: "Robert J. Adams" <radams@siscom.net> Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, Troy Settle <troy@picus.com>, FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) Message-ID: <3874221E.DBD45CDB@inc.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001051448500.3562-100000@thud.tbe.net> <02b301bf57dc$d0ffa620$3102fbd1@siscom.net>
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"Robert J. Adams" wrote: > > Gary, > > Not sure if I agree with you. With the size of news today (we bring in about > 81-90G/day) it would take a LOT of 9gig drives to store it for a week. We > have been using 50gig barracudas (about 24 per server, soon to be 32) in a > RAID 0+1 setup. Yea, we loose half the space w/ this setup due to the raid, > but it's lightening fast and fully redundant. I'm just waiting for IBM to > start shipping the damn 72G drives.. then again.. we kinda go crazy with > news. Personally I'm waiting for everyone to stop passing the alt.binaries.warez.* groups, doing that alone would probably drop news traffic by 70%... All in favor say AYE! :) -- Steve Kaczkowski Time Warner Telecom IDD steve@inc.net (414)908-9012 http://www.inc.net (603)737-9209 Fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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