Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:49:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Robert Suetterlin <robert@mpe.mpg.de> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: storing 10TB in 494x435x248mm, with power of 200W (at 28VDC) (was: why are You asking here) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111261144350.101-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011126120431.C1170@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Robert Suetterlin wrote: > You are completely right --- talking about fixed hardware. (I see that > my paragraph hints to such a thing.) Yet I thought about a combination > of software and hardware, where both could be upgraded independently > while still keeping standard interfaces available, and called that a > 'standard solution'. I mean something like Intel CPU, PC Architecture > and *BSD. All have changed over the last ten years quite a lot. But > still I could run a software that would rely on 'standard' interfaces > (like files, ports, pipes, etc.) from ten years back on todays most > modern hardware and newest *BSD version. And the prices would even have > dropped. I'm interested in this. You indicated that hard radiation was a problem. This means using rad-hardened kit at looking at a fairly short component lifetime; hardened, erm, hardware tends to lag about n years behind state-of-the-art (or off-the-shelf), for a reasonable value of n. I think Ted's suggestion (ie, get a big player to build it for you - ideally for the marketing value, but probably for a huge sack of cash) seems to be the best approach here. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk YKYBPTMRogueW... you try to move diagonally in vi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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