Re: Ye Olde optimization/mirror disk space debate

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

*  (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)

| 36GB disks?  Why buy 36GB disks when you can buy big ones?  See, the
| problem here is that things are in such frequent motion, that what
| seemed like a big disk once is now small.  36GB is a tiny disk.

When you are running an ftp server or similar, seek time is more
important than data rate.  So, you'd rather have ten 36GB disk than
two 180GB disks.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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