On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ortelius@gmail.com">ortelius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Serving is not the issue, we just need disk and bandwidth, CPU and<br>
Memory are not horribly important here.<br></blockquote><div><br>Serving would certainly be an issue if we got 120 desktop machines with 250 gigs each (which we could probably find in the trash cans of some organizations).<br>
<br>So, it's not *just* disk and bandwidth. But if CPU isn't an issue, 8 servers @ 4 terabytes each seems like about the sweet spot in balancing cost, space, and power consumption.<br></div></div>