On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 06:59:49PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:31:37AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:27:26AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > Diskspace *is* a problem for mirrors, as is bandwidth in many countries. > > > Also, you should think about this issue not just in the context of the > > > single package you are interested in but as a general policy. > > > > Honnestly, no, this is not true anymore nowadays. With a 500Gb sata > > hard drive, you're able to have a full debian mirror (all archs). Such a > > disk is around 100€ nowadays. > > ... but it will break down in three months with the typical usage > pattern of a public Debian mirror. > > A typical 300GB server-class hotpluggable SATA or SAS disk is quite a > bit more expensive than a typical desktop-class 500GB hard disk, and for > a RAID setup that will actually survive the breakdown of a number of > moving parts parts, you'll need at least four or five of them.
Actual data seems to show the cheap desktop disks are not worse than so-called server-class disks. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
