From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 24 10:59:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F80337B6CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1571 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:53:24 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.106 1999-Mar-31 #1 built 1999-Aug-7) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:53:22 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Julian Assange Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: incoming bandwidth for linguistic project? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25 Feb 2000, Julian Assange wrote: > I'm an Australian computational linguist. I'm doing some research on > language drift on the internet. This requires reasonable amounts of > incoming bandwidth (1-8 Gbytes a day) for analysis, but very little > outgoing bandwidth (perhaps 1/50th of incoming). > > running freebsd with 256 mb ram. > with 5 x 40 Gb ide drives (e.g maxtor), with room > for another 3 drives > the cost (if any) of 1-8Gb a/day incoming bandwidth > the cost of say, 50Mb/day of outgoing bandwidth > If, for some unpredicted reason we need to upgrade to > 4x the in/out bandwidth estimate above, the marginal cost of > doing so. [ ... ] Did miss some functionality, or are you limited to four total IDE devices on the two IDE interfaces most motherboards have? Does someone make an IDE controller that uses cable-select that FreeBSD has drivers for? btw: One of your IDE devices may be taken by a CDROM drive... - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message