On 7/26/06, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Single or Dual Xeon or AMD64 based system with up to 6.0 Terabytes of
storage and 12 GB of DDR memory. Comes fully installed with the Wikipedia
Encyclopedia and a full suite of automated site mirroring and update tools
and 1 year of service and support."
Why so much storage?
Uncompressed enwiki text is 680GB. All images in total are about
300GB. Loaded into postgresql with a normal set of indexes enwiki
takes about 400GB, I can imagine that a mysql load would be any larger
(in mysql mediawiki uses zlib batch compression).
I guess the 3TB makes sense to have some growth room.. but 18TB?
:)