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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Thanks Alan, |
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> > Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only |
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> > 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the |
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> > drives and then do new installs from scratch. |
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> 8G drives!!!!!!!!!! Wow, that comes from the previous millenium.... |
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> Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office |
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> sounded like it had a Boeing in it taking off!) and I thought they were |
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> old. Now it looks like a young spring chicken in comparison... |
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Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV |
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frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down |
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the drive and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't |
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need much space so I probably bought the smallest thing I could find 4 |
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years ago when I first built them. |
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As with everything, technology marches forward. A terabyte for a |
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couple hundred bucks now... |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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