Re: Database design.

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Blue Boar wrote:

> Drsolly wrote:
> > 300 gb drives cost about $100. You can put four of those in one computer, 
> > total cost maybe $600. For 460 terabytes, you'd need some 400 of those, 
> > which would cost $240,000.
>
> If you don't also need the CPUs in those distributed machines, ala 
> Google, then you probably just lost all of your "savings" to space, 
> power, and cooling.
 
400 computers at 100 watts per computer, would need 40 kw. Space 
requirement - you could put it in a double garage. Aircon requirements 
wouldn't be too bad, you could probably go with 20 kw to augment the 
natural cooling. 

Hardware really is cheap.

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