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In article <mQHfAKC1eYS8EwdB@xerez.nospam.co.uk>
           newsreply@xerez.demon.co.uk "Shez" writes:

> Peter Corlett <abuse@mooli.org.uk> wrote:
> >Shez  <newsreply@xerez.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[snip Shez's original suggestion of using cheap IDE disk drives]
> >
> >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.

The point -------Whoosh!-------->

              Your Head.
              
> 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.

So what do you estimate the price of a 120GB Ultra-160 SCSI disk to be,
then?

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
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