On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:48, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
One of the academics I am speaking of wrote the
textbook on natural language
processing. He has a 3TB raid cluster. Of course, for about a thousand
dollars you can create a bigger raid cluster than that using the new 2TB
drives, but funding comes and goes.
Using 1TB hard drives and a bit of creativity, you can build a 9TB
storage server for that $1000. Disk space is getting cheaper all the
time, and it's one of those cases where you can save a small fortune
by building the computer yourself.
--
Mark