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.  :)
>
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