From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 25 0:43:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E13D37BE58 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:43:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proff@iq.org) Received: by suburbia.net (Postfix, from userid 110) id B341A6C504; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:43:23 +1100 (EST) To: James Wyatt Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: incoming bandwidth for linguistic project? References: Cc: proff@iq.org From: Julian Assange Date: 25 Feb 2000 19:43:23 +1100 In-Reply-To: James Wyatt's message of "Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:53:22 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Big Bend) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Wyatt writes: > 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@ Some mother boards have support for 4 ide busses. Otherwise one can simple use an additional PCI ide controller (e.g promise) for the extra two busses. Cheers, Julian. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message