On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:26:24PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > I was thinking of along the lines of:
> > > * Intel 945G motherboard
> > > * LSI Megaraid SATA-6
> > > * 512MB of RAM
> > > * 1+ TB of disk
>
> ...and be sure to split the disk into smaller partitions
> unless you want to buy more RAM, fsck will not be amusing
> otherwise.
>
> > And seriously, how does one manage to fill a TB of data?
>
> video, lossless-compressed music, backups from a bunch
> of machines, none of our business really (-:
I'll grant you the latter, but still... well, let's just say that that
40 GB tapedrive I mentioned is plenty for backing up everything I admin.
And anyway, in the context of someone asking for advice, I'll gladly
shower him with more of same than (s)he ever wanted. ;-)
Joachim
