a major stumbling block is that the disk drive industry still hasn't recovererd fully from the Thai floods, and 3tB nearline server grade drives are on allocation and demanding high prices. you might find you can't just order 1000 of these from Newegg or whatever, they don't have them. using 2TB drives, and you'd need 1500, whcih means another rack and that much more power and HVAC _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos