we ran out thanks for the folks at LJ

God damn!

Is that Central? I didn't know they stocked that many!

I was impressed too. We pretty much ran them dry, though. We were actually limited in our disk selection by what they had in stock. Fortunately they had one of our top picks.

Do they have anything cool, like a "buy 4 terabytes, get 1 free" special? Or perhaps a "buy out our entire stock of disks, get the next batch free"? :)

"we didn't have enough"

That cost what, $2000?

Twenty years ago, that would have cost (assuming it were even doable, which I kinda doubt) $335M.

Yeah, about $2k.

Don't forget the milk

What service does LJ use for processing credit card transactions? I assume you guys wouldn't go through the evil Verisign.

Brad, do you *really* need that much pr0n storage?
;-)

Aw, and to think I'll have to make do with just the one terabyte.

How are these things hooked up? Do you have some form of expandable rack housing for 'em?

SATA hot plug. Can get 4 SATA disks per 1U, we have have 1U, 2U, 3U, and 4U boxes.

Hrms.. pretty small disks then eh?

I'm building a 16x 500GB disk RAID-5 for a client right now. It's pretty heavy :(

Spindles often more important than raw capacity.

are you gonna make the interns fill out all the rebate forms?

I almost snarfed coke all over my powerbook. Thanks. =)

You buy disks retail?

yeah, brad. my jew senses are tingling here. only suckers pay retail.

why appears to me (over a month ) cant find server? when i try to update owls? hein?