Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:00:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810290954050.428-100000@smarter.than.nu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810291116490.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> Consider also CD-ROM jukeboxes. With the cost of CDR media you would be
> limited only by the size of the changer you could find.
Bad idea. :) 1 terabyte requires 1539 CD-Rs, and it will take 32 days of
continuous operation (assuming one 2x speed burner) to burn them. I don't
think anyone makes thousand-disc changers, so one would probably have to
buy a robot to handle them. Methinks you'd wear the drives (both readers
and burners) out very quickly, too.
--
Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu
brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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