bringing my computer into the 21st century

[Seth Gordon]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:19, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> > 
> > > So, for a nice little 5 drive RAID (striping, parity, one spare) you
> > > would spend $250 + (5 x 160) = $1050 and have a little less than 80 GB
> > > of nice, fast, reliable storage.
> > 
> > I thought you only needed 3 drives (not counting spares) to do striping
> > plus parity, if you're doing it with RAID 5.
> 
> Sure, but I was trying to get you to a viable amount of storage.

I have 6.3 GB on that machine now, and it's only beginning to pinch me. 
(My reward for having no taste in music and therefore no MP3 collection.
:-)  A hundred gigs should keep me going for a few years longer.

-- 
"... it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust _anybody_, and
in
CLOS you basically trust everybody.  the practical result is that
thieves
and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS."  --Erik Naggum
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