Mike Brown posted on Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:23:24 -0500 as excerpted: > 1TB is about 300 binary files in the 3GB range. I download some less > and some more, as far as size.
Yeah, if you're doing multi-gig files daily, block accounts aren't the best choice. But for mostly text users they can't be beat, and even for users doing a mix of say mp3s and maybe a full CD ISO or two a day, or those doing mostly still-images, blocks are likely to be best or competitive. It's just when you get into full SDTV to HD length video that the gigs really start flowing like Niagara, and time-blocks as opposed to gig-blocks tend to be the better buy. Or similar size non-video, but there really /isn't/ much non-video that takes /that/ level of gigs. That I know of, anyway. Yes, there are very occasional exceptions, but they tend to be pretty special case, and not necessarily news server material as a result. How many petabytes of data a year is the super-collider supposed to produce? But I don't believe anyone's considering that practical for newsgroup distribution, tho I could be wrong... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
