turbotaz is the hostname of my home desktop computer. It's a Gentoo system with KDE. The hardware is pretty good: a Core 2 Duo E6600, 2 GB of RAM, and my favorite part: over a terabyte of storage. There are 4 320 GB Western Digital SATA drives. They spin at 7200 RPM and sport 8 MB caches. I'm using RAID 10, provided by md.
What scares me is how claustrophobic I currently feel:
turbotaz ~ # df --si Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md/1 628G 557G 40G 94% / udev 1.1G 312k 1.1G 1% /dev shm 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /dev/shm
At the rate I'm currently going, that last 40 GB is going to disappear pretty quickly. I don't have anything I'm particularly happy about deleting... Could we please hurry up and get affordable terabyte drives on the market? I've heard chatter of one or more, but I don't know if they are on shelves yet, and if they are, buying four is probably going to break the bank...
(For the inappropriately curious: no, the space is not occupied by pornography.)
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