I've spoken with azarah and he seems ok with it
Created attachment 82403 [details] funding request form
Can you give a little more information around why that much disk space is needed? It's more than we have on toucan.g.o right now.
Posting per Mike's request: Seems that I lack the foo to add a comment to this bug in bugzilla so I'm sending via email. Perhaps someone could post this in the bug. (In reply to comment #2) > Can you give a little more information around why that much disk space is > needed? It's more than we have on toucan.g.o right now. > I chose the 250G drives because they seem to be the best value per dollar. We could go with 200G drive at a saving of $9.50/drive. We could go with 3 drives in a raid 5 if needed. Also consider the fact that pitr users use chroots, so it's not an easy comparison to make with toucan. I chose sata-II over sata-I because it was the cheapest sata PCI-X controller I could find and the sata-II drives were $1 more than the same model with a sata-I interface. If you look at the stats in cacti[1], you'll see that the trend in disc usage is about 9GB a month. If usage continues to grow at the same rate, then adding 750GB will give us at least 5 years until we need to add more space. [1] - http://netmon.gentoo.org/cacti/graph.php?action=zoom&local_graph_id=480&rra_id=4&view_type=
Still seems like too much disk. That might give you enough space for 5 years worth of growth, but do you really expect the box itself to be in use 5 years from now? Going off of experience w/ toucan, I'm also willing to bet that there's a lot of cruft in the current drives that could be cleared up and kept clean. 250GB is a lot of storage space and, in a raid 1, would provide redundancy at half the cost (or less, if we can go w/ a cheaper controller) of the proposed solution. I would rather buy what is needed now vs. what we think we'll need in 5 years. Disk space continues to get cheaper and I would rather buy more disk 1-2 years from now than invest all the money now.
Five year is a lot for the IT industry. I would focus on a 3-year advance. I don't think we should just focus on "current requirements"; being a bit foreseeing is a good thing imo.
so if the request is for the hardware as described w/ two drives instead of 4, then I'm fine with it.
2 disks in a raid 1 will allow for 2-3 years of growth until we hit this spot again. I suppose I'm good with this.
what's the next step here? we need to get those disks in pitr to free up a disk for solars tinderbox.
I think we (trustees) need to officially approve this and put the order through. Grant, you're the money man, I believe.
I'm with Kurt, so as long as we go with the revised request, I approve.
As per solar's mail, I still have to vote. I'm okay with the current situation of 2 disks.
No problem here w/ 2 disks. +1
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+1 Sounds fine to me too.
Aye
+1, sorry was gone all weekend.
Newegg wishlist for everything but the controller: https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wishlist/PublicWishDetail.asp?WishListNumber=3383326&WishListTitle=gentoo+amd64
Orders placed w/ newegg and servers direct; please close when materials arrive.
new hardware in and installed, thanks
Lacking any solid records, I have estimated this expense at $485USD, taking place on 2006/06/21 (FY2006). This excludes any shipping costs, or other discounts.
