On 20/01/2012 05:03 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:18:25 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>
>> Sure. But given that computers are very low-power devices, you don't
>> think of a computer plant as something requiring megawatts of power and
>> entire rooms of cooling equipment.
>
> I've done work in a 20,000 sq. ft. data center.  Data centers are big
> business these days.

The biggest data center I've ever been in was one largish room populated 
with server racks.

Heh, I still remember looking at one of the stacks, and seeing that it 
had *seven* 4.2 GB drives in it. (Remember, in 1997, those suckers where 
EXPENSIVE.) I remember feeling slightly giddy trying to compute how much 
total storage space such a monster RAID setup... Ah, the memories.

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