[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Kevin]

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My current HD in my main workstation is a four gig U2W drive. 
Admittedly that will be bumped up to a 36 gig U160 this
weekend but i have been using this drive fine since July of
99.  Of course i do have online file storage of much larger
capacities, but that illustrates the point.  A great deal of
these workstations are used in environments where networked
file storage is used to a large degree.  Most 3D doesn't
actually take up that much space until you start kicking out
frames and that is almost always done to network storage. 
Video obviously requires a great deal of fast storage, but
those who work heavily with that are expected to be utilizing
other, faster and larger, arrays and what not.  Very rarely is
the main disk subsystem used to deal with this type of work.

I suspect the nine gig drive in my Octane will be sufficient
for years to come.  The nine gig drive in my SS20 is overkill.

What takes up space on most peoples drives?  Two gig games
(UT2003), tons of MP3's and a million and one bloatware apps. 
None of which, i doubt, is SGI concerned with when they design
systems.

There's nothing wrong with having a lot of storage locally, i
just believe that this has gotten waaaay out of hand with the
desktop market due to cheap drives.

/KRM


On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:04:02 -0700
"Chris Byrne" <chris at chrisbyrne.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> > 
> > Unless  you put it on a 9GB drive, install all the SGI
> > freeware, add a couple Quake dirs, install some opensource
> > stuff, and then go and have a
> > $HOME over 2GB.  At which point you find yourself
> > considering getting an
> > 18GB drive.
> > 
> > But I suppose I could stick another 18GB (or 36GB :) drive
> > in it and use it
> > as /usr, and then not have to worry about reinstalling.  
> > Yeah, that's a
> > better idea....
> > 
> > -- 
> > Kurt                     
> > kurt at k-huhn.com         
> 
> 
> Now heres a question for everyone. Why is it that UNIX
> vendors in general, and SGI specifically tend to include
> such tiny drives relative to the largest capacities
> available, in even thir higher end systems?
> 
> Up until two years ago the standard drive in an 02 was a 9
> gigger, it was only an 18gb when they discontinued the 02+
> last year, and the largest drive you could order with one
> was a 36gb. Even now the standard drive config for an
> Octane2 is a single 18gb drive. 
> 
> You would think that machines designed to work with large
> amounts of 3d graphics and video would have more storage
> capacity. 
> 
> And of course when you do order bigger drives they charge
> you four times what the drive costs when ordered from the
> manufacturer.
> 
> Chris Byrne
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