[geeks] what is the world coming to...

[Dave McGuire]

On April 9, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> > I don't know how they can be so stingy with disk space.
> 
> Shared disk space is expen$ive.  Not like going down to Fry's and buying 
> an IDE disk.  Gotta have support for it, backups, RAID/mirroring, etc.  
> We have this argument at work.

  Yes but we're not talking about terabytes here.  It's just not THAT
expensive or difficult to do.  And yes, I've done it, and I do know
what's involved.

  Take the University of Maryland at College Park for example.  The last
stats I saw stated that was a 30,000 student campus (that was years
ago, dunno if it's still accurate, but just as an example).  Even
20MB/student is only 600GB of disk (unmirrored).

  I think the bastards are just being cheap.

        -Dave

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