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[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight]

On 14 Mar 2010, at 19:41, Scott Haneda wrote:

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> Not a terrible cost. That's bandwidth only though? I assume there are colocation costs, amperage considerations, and the hardware?

A lot of mirrors are donated / sponsored
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> It's not very specialized hardware. Would a rack of many small high density yet powrful machines such as Mac Mini's be an option?

What is the point of putting them all in one place?

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> I can rack up 40 or so of those in maybe 10U of cabinet space front to back. They put out little heat, use near no power, hold plenty of memory... I imagine SSD's could be good in this case, if a machine dies, nit a big deal with the redundant nature of this entire system.

Again - why would you put them all in one location?

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