1.8 terabytes of storage...

[PCMarine]

crazy.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: SeekingTao

Originally posted by: UlricT
you think the guy who did that is gonna have a GIRLfriend???? 😕😀

Maybe. Explain the item

IN THE RED CIRCLE. 😀

Are you certain that they aren't his? 🙂

Seriously, though, why on Earth would a home computer currently need over a TB of hard drive space? Unless he's running a huge warez or pron server for his buddies, I can't figure out a need for it.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Not to mention the cost of the kind of connection you'd need to actually use all that space... atleast a T1 or T2... lol

 

[DannyBoy]

Probably one of those geeks with a very sad depressing life & no friends, with rich parents (Wood Parque flooring?) who buy him whatever he wants, and is trying to get some admiration from somewhere, so he turns to doing something that looks good, and trys posting it on the web to try and get thrills from some people saying "OMG Thats amazing im now your best friend"

 

[DannyBoy]

I agree with the comment on rather spending it on a newer monitor 😕

Looks like one of those BBC things that they had with the 286's and dos.

Very nice.....

 

[tart666]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Those are SCSI drives, people. When was the last time you saw FIVE IDE DRIVES ON THE SAME CABLE?

Besides, look at their height. 2x size.

Either they are SCSI or the old 463mb Connor drives. More

Don't SCSI drives show up as sda, sdb, etc in Linux?

(edit) from the slashdot posting:
"A friend of mine is building a personal server. He bought 17 of the cheapest IDE drives available and used Linux' LVM to get them together. The result? Almost two terabytes of disk space in regular x86 PC. The most juicy part - photos are here. For an operating system, he first tried the enterprise-ready PLD Linux Distribution, later he reinstalled Slackware Linux."

 

[sharkeeper]

Those are Samsung Spinpoint ATA100 disks. :Q

Cheers!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Someone should have told me I was such an extremely lucky idiot...

Idiot? I don't know, but running that many ide drives in raid0 is idiotic. No one is insulting you, or trying to be cool by dissing raid0. It is extremely simple math, figure it out. 2 drives in raid0 are not a great idea for important data. Each drive you add makes it even less intelligent. raid5 is perfect for huge array like that 🙂

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Those are SCSI drives, people. When was the last time you saw FIVE IDE DRIVES ON THE SAME CABLE?

Besides, look at their height. 2x size.

Either they are SCSI or the old 463mb Connor drives. More

If you see in the screenshots, they are detected as DMA, and if they were scsi drives, linux would have sda sdb sdc sdd sde etc, instead of hda hdb hdc hdd hde etc

 

[DannyBoy]

BingBongWongFooey


oooo Im sure it was you who someone said you had a long name couple days ago! :Q

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy
BingBongWongFooey


oooo Im sure it was you who someone said you had a long name couple days ago! :Q

yeah 😛

How come everyone is mentioning that lately..?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: MrFiTTy
BingBongWongFooey


oooo Im sure it was you who someone said you had a long name couple days ago! :Q

yeah 😛

How come everyone is mentioning that lately..?

I've mentioned it plenty of times, in fact I used to refer to you as "The guy with the long name", not that the latter made the name any shorter...

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Maelsturm
who do I have to kill to get something like that?

Just wait 5 years and it'll be $75 and all in one 3.5"x7.75"x0.75" package. Besides, I'm not worried about terrabytes. I'm waiting for computer power/storage/ability to be conveyed in exo-somethings. Exo- is a cool prefix.

😛

Anyway, I don't know a whole lot about raid, but just mathematically, I wouldn't take the chance of running those drives in anything except for RAID 5.

The project is very cool. Useless, but cool anyway. 🙂