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Peter Corlett <abuse@mooli.org.uk> wrote:
>Shez  <newsreply@xerez.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> [...] Surely the cost of hard disks can't be an issue, as at current
>> prices an extra 20MB each would only cost Demon 2p per customer in capital
>> outlay, and then only where it was actually taken up.
>
>Clearly one would run a high-availabilty web server for thousands of sites
>off the cheapest (and therefore slowest and least reliable) IDE disk
>available.

Actually I think I got my costings a little off - that was the cost for
10 MB. If you're buying decent quality IBM 60GXP disks then 20MB could
cost as much as 4p. Alternatively you could get Maxtor disks at about 3p
for 20MB. If extra speed or reliability is needed, a RAID configuration
will do it.

As for the cost of extra machines or racks, an alternative is to replace
older smaller disks with large ones, e.g. put a 120GB drive in to
replace an old 20GB one. This pushes up the effective price per MB a bit
but will probably be cheaper than adding more hardware.

-Shez.
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