[Foundation-l] dumps

Mark Wagner carnildo at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 02:37:42 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:48, Brian <Brian.Mingus at 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



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