From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 10:00:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23419 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:00:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (lal-99-91.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.99.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23413 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA11760 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:00:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message