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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Cheap 1000Gbyte machine
In-Reply-To: <399D6F59.B8E44A53@imagination.com> from Jonathan Laventhol at "Aug 18, 2000 06:16:09 pm"
To: jonathan.laventhol@imagination.co.uk (Jonathan Laventhol)
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It seems Jonathan Laventhol wrote:
> Hello Folks --
> 
> Anybody built a file server with approx 1000 Gbyte or more?

Not yet :)

> Or even 200 Gbyte?

Yup, 300G's standing here right next to me...

> I'm looking for a cheap simple way of doing this.  Lots of
> IDE drives?  (How many can you have?)  Or SCSI?  (Again,
> how many can you have?).

Take 3 or 4 Promise Ultra66/100's and 14 IBM 75G DTLA 307075
drives and you should be in business, for a very resonable
pricetag.

-Søren


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