[geeks] what is the world coming to...

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:49:53PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 10:24 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >  Take the University of Maryland at College Park for example.  The last
> >stats I saw stated that was a 30,000 student campus (that was years
> >ago, dunno if it's still accurate, but just as an example).  Even
> >20MB/student is only 600GB of disk (unmirrored).
> >
> >  I think the bastards are just being cheap.
> 
> Let's see, list on 655G of T3 storage is $85K or so.  Say they get a 
> good university discount, already have a rack available (or a tabletop), 
> and just need to cable it up and add a GBIC to an existing server fot 
> the fiber connection.  Maybe $50K in costs, including the labor costs.
> 
> Hell, I work for a $BIG_COMPANY, and I can't get $50K right now in extra 
> funds.

Those 30k students didn't show up all at once.  There was plenty of time for
planning.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd