It sounds an awful lot like a RAID (for example, 10 13GB disks RAID5 array)
setup, with one "virtual" drive (LUN) that is 100 GB or so...
Or perhaps a machine with multiple drives that TOTAL to 100 GB. Should be
relatively easy to do, even with IDE drives, if you add one of the Promise
adapters (and therefore can put 8 IDE devices on the machine). At 33 GB
each, 8 drives would be a whopper.... 264 GB. Now, add in a SCSI chain
of 6 disks and a CDROM..... Of course, the cost is also going to be
a whopper.
Man, I need to win the lottery (wiping drool from chin).
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 9:51 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Maximum hd size
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote:
> My uncle works for a potash mining company. One of their linux file
servers
> has a 100GB HD with 1GB of RAM.
> That was at least a year ago. Probably, you can get more RAM and larger
> drives by now, but that's the largest setup I know of.
Hmm.......are you sure its a 100GB HD? I only know of SCSI drives going
in the ~50GB range.........we have several of them, Seagates. I didn't
know you could get a 100GB HD.
Brian
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