JWColby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Jan 17 14:47:12 CST 2007
Jim, I have WAY more free room than that. My system drive (C:) has several gigabytes left, hundreds of times the 20mb on that systems drive. ;-) If it weren't for the cost of a high speed RAID controller, massive capacity hard drives are now within reach for us average joes. I have a real need of course, but I bought 8 320g Seagates for $95 each delivered. The RAID controller cost me 60% of that amount at $500. In the end, for about $1300 I built a raid 6 raid array which contains (after deducting 2 drives for parity striping) 6 X 300 (real) gbytes for almost 1.8 terrabytes of storage. And this thing is WICKED fast, streaming read data at over 300 mbytes / sec. AND it can lose two drives and still continue to work. For someone in my position, that is an incredible bargain. Now if I could just figure out how to back it up economically. ;-) John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:31 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! Charlotte: There seemed to be so much more room on drives. The first major site I designed and installed had a full unlimited Novell network; a hand built POS, accounting system, word processors (bought), ran across 2 offices in different cities and allowed remote access from a home office. All for a large book store. The server had 386-20Mhz, 8MB RAM, 20MB HD. It was not that long ago. We just work in one of the world's fastest changing industries. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:17 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! >>Ah, I remember the days of 8 and 10 GB drives. Youngster! LOL *I* remember the days of 10Mb drives! Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of artful at rogers.com Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:01 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! What an excellent thing to do with an old beater box. I have a few of those around. Do you version-control everything or just database projects? (I ask because at the last large gig I worked on, everything was versioned. It never occurred to me before that how valuable it was to version every technical document relating to a project. Once I realized that, the small leap to versioning stories, books, articles, etc. was obvious. Ah, I remember the days of 8 and 10 GB drives. One can trace the lineage of this box with no more evidence than that. It must have been a big step up to add the 30 GB drive LOL. A. ----- Original Message ---- From: Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:22:24 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] OMG!!!!!! Arthur, I use Subversion as it utilizes an old beater box, 300Mhz, 256MB RAM, 3 drives, (8, 10 & 30GB) and a handcrafted ancient Linux.... works great and is more reliable than most of the other high performance stuff around the office. Mind you if it ever fails..... Jim -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com