On Wed, 2005-20-04 at 15:43 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 15:51 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote: > > Do you have inside information to when drives >2TB will > > be affordable to the average person or even available? > > Oh? So we're talking about the average person again right? Guess what, > grub works for the average person. The unaverage can spend their > unaverage time to source lilo into the distro and make it their boot > loader. The rest of the average world can continue using GRUB and > benefit from the developer time freed up from dealing with the crap pile > that Lilo has become. > > > That argument is just nuts. Drive prices will have to > > drop to 10% of what they are now per GB, and as far as > > I know there aren't any commonly available .5TB drives > > yet. It will likely be a couple years before a 2TB > > drive will be commonly available. > > I'm not speaking of a single drive, I'm speaking of RAID arrays. We > sell on average 4 machines a week that are capable of a > 2TB block > device. Thats a lot of systems. WAY more that systems we sell with > onboard pata, onboard sata, add on pata and add on sata.... In fact, > we've NEVER sold one of those. Oh goody for you. > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) > Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) > GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating On oh so many levels, not.