[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 7/26/06, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at 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?

:)