Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:08:05 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Large File support and blocks. |
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:16:23AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > With all the talk about bugs and slowness on a 386/486/586 -- does anyone > > think those platforms will have multi-T disks hooked up to them? > > Yes. They are already doing it, and the number of people trying > is growing rapidly. I had people doing half-TB arrays of ext2 > even 3 or 4 years ago on Intel hardware.
There was a nice thread on one of the freebsd lists last week. They calculated that a 1TB fileserver would cost somewhere between $3000 and $12000, depending on how much performance you want (and whether you'd like hot-plugging of drives or not).
With this kind of cost (and dropping all the time), it is indeed a very realistic thing that people /will/ be using multi-TB disk arrays on 32-bit machines without wanting to upgrade to a 64-bit machine for this ...
regards,
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