Now, 800Gigs sounds like a lot, but I distinctly also recall that time as the era when we ran across 8GB clip issues. It wouldn't be unheard of for drives to actually be 20-60GB in size around this era, maybe larger for the expensive SCSI kind.
Getting 800GB online storage with something like RAID5 or RAID6 would probably take two fully loaded controllers; lets say 10 drives of usable storage across two arrays. (20 drives). That back of the envelope math is about 40GB per drive.
I could see this being an easy case at a LARGE university in some tech centrist area at about the timeframe of 16-18 years ago.
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Now, 800Gigs sounds like a lot, but I distinctly also recall that time as the era when we ran across 8GB clip issues. It wouldn't be unheard of for drives to actually be 20-60GB in size around this era, maybe larger for the expensive SCSI kind.
Getting 800GB online storage with something like RAID5 or RAID6 would probably take two fully loaded controllers; lets say 10 drives of usable storage across two arrays. (20 drives). That back of the envelope math is about 40GB per drive.
I could see this being an easy case at a LARGE university in some tech centrist area at about the timeframe of 16-18 years ago.