From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 20 18:42:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA16495 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 May 1995 18:42:22 -0700 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA16489 for ; Sat, 20 May 1995 18:42:21 -0700 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA25243 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 May 1995 21:44:20 -0400 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199505210144.VAA25243@ns1.win.net> Subject: re: 4gig drive for $1099 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 21:44:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1099 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > NCA in Sunnyvale, Ca., has a special for 4gig quantum disk drives for > $1099 . > I wonder if there might be some sort of pricing anomoly on these drives because of the lack of 64 bit file system support in many operating systems. This is one of the nice advantages of FreeBSD. Even Cutler, who should have known better, wound up with 32 bit limits in NTFS. People with SCO, ect, have got to feel at least a psychological inhibition about buying 4 gig drives :-). If this is correct I would expect demand to be pronounced at the 2 gig level and to be very soft at the 4 gig + levels. Anyway 64 bit fs support is yet another drumstick to pound the drum with. Jordan needs to get some artwork with the BSDaemon pounding a drum that has the file system limit written on it :-). Say a couple of bongos - one has "4 gig OK" and the other has "9 gig OK". :-) PS: Like Jordan I've also moved my news partition to an entire 4 gig drive and have been running a full newsfeed across it for several weeks now. Happy Happy, Joy Joy, Surprise, Surprise. Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net