Date: 25 Feb 2000 19:43:23 +1100 From: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: proff@iq.org Subject: Re: incoming bandwidth for linguistic project? Message-ID: <wxvh3dk6z8.fsf@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: James Wyatt's message of "Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:53:22 -0600 (CST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002241251390.38762-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
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James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> writes: > 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@ Some mother boards have support for 4 ide busses. Otherwise one can simple use an additional PCI ide controller (e.g promise) for the extra two busses. Cheers, Julian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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