On 3 July 2014 18:49, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
Also, 24T is a significant chunk of the space
available to Labs in
general; storage is nowhere near as inexpensive in our context as would
be with off-the-shelf customer-grade disks. There's nothing that
prevents us from allocating significant resources to a project that
needs it (to wit: open street maps tile generator) but we're not going
to do that site unseen and without supervision.
As an aside to this: even were you to do it with crappy consumer-grade
disks, you're still looking at the better part of a thousand dollars -
the cheapest price for a new off-the-shelf disk looks to be about
$35/tb, so perhaps eight hundred dollars or more. Presumably even for
crappy disks the costs of putting them in a box and plugging it in are
still there, too - call it a round thousand for the cheapest option.
I haven't been following this case, but I would think saying "let's
figure out what you want to do before we spend a thousand dollars on
it" would be an eminently reasonable position for Marc to take.
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