On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:29:40 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> 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.

Indeed, I still recall that the Fortune 50 company I worked for a decade 
ago had an EMC storage array with 750 GB of storage in it....

My new *laptop* has a drive that big in it.  I've got about 4 TB of 
storage here at home now.

Jim

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