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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!

:)

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Steve Kaczkowski	Time Warner Telecom IDD
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