Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:53:22 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: incoming bandwidth for linguistic project? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002241251390.38762-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <wxzosqk0en.fsf@suburbia.net>
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On 25 Feb 2000, Julian Assange wrote: > I'm an Australian computational linguist. I'm doing some research on > language drift on the internet. This requires reasonable amounts of > incoming bandwidth (1-8 Gbytes a day) for analysis, but very little > outgoing bandwidth (perhaps 1/50th of incoming). > > running freebsd with 256 mb ram. > with 5 x 40 Gb ide drives (e.g maxtor), with room > for another 3 drives > the cost (if any) of 1-8Gb a/day incoming bandwidth > the cost of say, 50Mb/day of outgoing bandwidth > If, for some unpredicted reason we need to upgrade to > 4x the in/out bandwidth estimate above, the marginal cost of > doing so. [ ... ] Did miss some functionality, or are you limited to four total IDE devices on the two IDE interfaces most motherboards have? Does someone make an IDE controller that uses cable-select that FreeBSD has drivers for? btw: One of your IDE devices may be taken by a CDROM drive... - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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