Re: [OT] Terabytes [was IDE]

[David Paterson <david.paterson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:23:32 +0000, you wrote:

>Yup, 1.3Tb available, 1Tb in a RAID5 and 300Gb in mirrored drives.
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I'm impressed (and amazed) at both yours and Phil's mega-storage.  Or
should that be tera-storage!

I think it'll be a long time before I get even close to it, although I
suppose one day it'll be commonplace to have in-house video servers.

I never watch enough movies (or even TV) to make it worthwhile, and it
would take an awful lot of music to fill a terabyte :)

David P.

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