>> I'm setting up a new CRAN mirror and filled up the disk space the >> server allotted me. I asked for more, then filled that up. Now the >> system administrators want me to buy an $800 fiber channel card and a >> storage device. I'm going to do that, but it does make want to >> suggest to you that this is a problem. > > Why? Just for the mirror? That's nonsense. A 6 year old outdated desktop > machine (say upgraded to 2GB RAM) with a 1T harddisc for 50$ should be fine > for your first tries. The bottleneck will probably be your network > connection rather than the storage.
Another perspective is that it costs ~$10 / month to store 68 Gb of data on amazon's S3. And then you pay 12c / GB for download. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
