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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by mschuster91 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @05:49PM (#11890442)
What, 9TB disk space? And 128GB RAM?

How much of this is actually utilized? O.o

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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by kogir on Sunday June 12, 2016 @06:14PM (#11890564)
Most of it is redundancy. Either duplicate copies, parity, or previous snapshots (off of which the backups are based).

I think the whole HN dataset is well under 100GiB, and maybe even under 30GiB.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by mschuster91 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @06:19PM (#11890592)
So in theory you don't need any spinning rust, it should all fit into RAM ;)
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Re:Ask HN: What is the hardware of Hacker News? by kogir on Monday June 13, 2016 @02:06PM (#11895857)
I like my storage to persist across power failures :)
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