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- From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Drive drive
- Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:35:11
- Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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- References: <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu>
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- In-reply-to: anderson@macc.wisc.edu's message of Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:42:04 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu>
- anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >Background: Several people have suggested solving the archive server
- >space crunch by asking users to kick in money to purchase additional
- >drives for sonata and orst. I've volunteered to collect pledges
- >and to contact Purdue and Oregon State to see what they think of
- >the idea. I'll do that at the beginning of next week. Five people
- >pledged money in the first hour, six counting me. The amounts so
- >far are like $10-$20 for each server site.
- >
- >Respondents so far think it's a cool idea and are making other
- >useful suggestions too.
-
- I would be willing to toss in a couple bucks. My problem, though,
- is that I am not certain if I wish to donate money for disk space.
- It seems to me that the major problem at Purdue is _not_ diskspace,
- it is management. I've talked to Allen (the student manager)
- before, and he's a great guy, but I suspect he's been a bit busy,
- lately. Cleaning up the submissions directory would probably free
- up a number of meg right off the bat.
-
- Furthermore, one poster on the net has put forth the opinion that
- they think that using a better compression algorithm isn't the way
- to go, so rather than waste everyone's time, buy more disk space.
- Well, yes and no. I have no doubt that even if we purchase a gig
- or two of disk space, it will soon be gone in _any_ case. I have
- a feeling that most system administrators would back me up on that
- point! In my experience, zip (or gzip) would reduce the disk needs
- by up to %40, which is a pretty substantial improvement. Furthermore,
- compression is free and works even if new disk space is purchased,
- so investment in a reasonable compression scheme is going to keep
- paying back in the future.
-
- So, in my view it comes down to three things, management, disk
- space, and compression. Compression is actually contained within
- management, and so, to a certain extent, is disk space. Just
- throwing hardware at the problem is not going to solve it. Of
- these, I think that if we put forth the bucks to help defray
- management costs, we'll get the best return on our dollar.
-
- Later,
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- 12901 Upton Avenue South, #326 Burnsville, MN 55337 (612) 895-1208 Anytime!
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