Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Apr 6 04:48:47 CDT 2010
Hi John: I posted that link on the DBA Tech list about a year ago (I know it is about a year ago as Outlooks archive system had lost the post ;-)) Right now we are working on building just such a drive. There is a team of us small entrepreneurs, all have small businesses and have seen this as inexpensive way offset much of our overhead. My workshop is filled with various parts and pieces and my boss is saying "Get to it." The controllers will be Linux based which will and can show the entire drive as a single unit which can allow certain operations to expand and shrink as necessary. (My son-in-law is putting the software components together and has been working on the design for close to a year.) Virtual drives will handle various OS requirements. It will of course need the proper controllers, LAN connections, fat pipes, fail-over systems (maybe a number of these units in various locations) and power supplys but I am sure we will be able to work out the details. Probably as difficult as building the box will be setting up how each participant will be appropriately compensated. It will have to be some rate built on space used, hits level, compensation for hosting it and the amount of data being transferred. As far as I can see the design is brilliant. My long range plans are to work with such super databases as 'Cassandra' where a billion records can be processed at the same rate as a RDBMS can process a million. If you haven't checked out my post(s) on the DBA tech list at least check the following links: http://cassandra.apache.org and http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Announcing-APDB-The-Worlds-Fastest-Database. aspx (This might be something you should be looking at; maybe in the future. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 8:27 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA Subject: [dba-VB] Anyone need a little storage? http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-features/30922-how-to-build-a-cheap-p etabyte-server-lessons-learned -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com