10 Oct
2012
10 Oct
'12
3:46 a.m.
QUINZE MIL FLOPPIES??? Que voces vao fazer com
tanto disquete assim?!
He's obviously building a 21.6 Gigabyte RAID Array using a proven
storage medium with a long track record, rather than these modern
hocus-pocus terabyte drives that use pure magic to record anything
and you never know where on the media it will actually land. Won't
hold all of bitsavers by any means, but will hold like an eighth of it.
15000 floppies, times 1.44 Mbyte each, gives 21.6 Gigabytes.
Oh, wait, he needs at least one drive for redundancy.
Actual capacity = 14999 * 1.44 Mbytes. The 15000th drive carries the
parity stripe, just in case any of the other drives ever fail.
Tim.