From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 21: 3:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6B61551B for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 21:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@inc.net) Received: from inc.net (ess.phreak.net [207.250.97.69]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA26861; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:03:47 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3874221E.DBD45CDB@inc.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 23:03:26 -0600 From: Steve Kaczkowski Organization: Time Warner Telecom Internet & Data Division X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,zh,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert J. Adams" Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , Troy Settle , FreeBSD ISP Subject: Re: News Server reccomendations (one more thing) References: <02b301bf57dc$d0ffa620$3102fbd1@siscom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "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