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On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:41:20PM -0600, Woodsmall, Ryan (IATS) wrote:
> > Current low end costs for "enterprise" storage are ~5,000/tb.
> > But, that
> > tends to decrease as time goes on. Additionally, they could be doing
> > something spiffy like storing metadata and migrating messages that
> > haven't been touched for a long time to tape.
>
> Don't they build their own systems? I know they did in the past, but
> I'm not sure they do so anymore. Just get a few of those spiffy 3Ware
> RAID cards, some cheap 350/400GB IDE drives, stuff them into a rackmount
> case and voila, Gmail. ;)
>
I've built several servers on that basic plan. A lot cheaper than
$5k/TB. Especially if (like Google) you dispense with the rackmount
case and just use mass-produced tower cases. Don't expect high
performance with cheap 350G drives...
Regards,
Mark
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