So when do we get to hear about the rest of the machine? -Erik At 10:44 AM 3/8/2002 -0600, you wrote: >On 8 Mar 2002, duncan wrote: > > > We will be replacing gladiator and it's 190Gb drives with a new box > > > and > 1.28Tb(!) of disk space. > > > > ooohhhh. very nice. > >actually, bob used 'bob math' for those numbers. :P > >right now, we have a total of 200gb in there. we have a 20gb boot disk, >and 4 45gb disks in a striped software array. > >we're going to change it to a setup where we have the 20gb boot disk, the >4 45gb disks in a hardware RAID5 array (promise controller), and 6 new >160gb disks in a RAID5 array (on a separate promise controller). > >so, total disk = 20+(4*45)+(6*160) == 1.16tb. We'll be doing raid, of >course, so total system usable disk will be 20+(3*45)+(5*160), or 995gb. >And, of that 995 gb, the 20gb disk won't be used for data storage, so we >get 975gb for data. > >Still a lot of space. :) > >-- >Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 >http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list