On 7/26/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
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?
:)
If you are doing mass computerised translations you could burn through it pretty fast.