We might probably get away with 7200 RPM SATA drives if they are primarily for storage and large sequential reads/writes. 

-Aaron

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:12 PM, OQ <overlordq@gmail.com> wrote:
Look at 10K+ rpm SAS drives then you're in the right ballpark. It's
closer to $2/GB then $.2/GB

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Aaron Halfaker
<aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consumer grade 2TB
> ($160): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148681
> Server Grade (Raid Edition)
> ($320): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136579
>
> Getting the disks in the servers is an additional cost and space may not be
> available.
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:22 AM, OQ <overlordq@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se> wrote:
>> > These files now take 160 GB, which is a fraction of a 2 TB disk that
>> > cost
>> > 100 euro to purchase. We're talking disk space at the cost of a lunch.
>> >
>> > How hard can it be to get enough disk space on the toolserver? I think
>> > many chapters contribute money to its operation. Is it not enough?
>>
>> Entirely different classes of hard-drives involved.
>>
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