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From: James Jolley on 10 Apr 2010 12:51
On 2010-04-10 17:24:31 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:

> On 2010-04-10 17:14:23 +0100, James Jolley said:
>
>> On 2010-04-10 17:11:11 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> said:
>>
>>> News servers use a large amount of disk space. Actually they might not
>>> compared with modern disk sizes, but it is significantly more than zero.
>>
>> Again, fair. You keep hearing disk space is cheap so bloody often you
>> start to equate it to any disk activity at all. Shouldn't I know, but
>> there we go.
>
> When I last (and first) ran a news server, I think it used a "massive"
> 2GB disk for its spool. Those were the days!

I'm curious to know what the average usage would be now on modern
computers with Binary type servers.

From: James Jolley on 10 Apr 2010 12:52
On 2010-04-10 17:41:46 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) said:

> James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote:
>
>>> News servers use a large amount of disk space. Actually they might not
>>> compared with modern disk sizes, but it is significantly more than zero.
>>
>> Again, fair. You keep hearing disk space is cheap so bloody often you
>> start to equate it to any disk activity at all. Shouldn't I know, but
>> there we go.
>
> Just imagine subscribing to _every_ group there is. Even the ones to do
> with knitting and making your own crisps. Then have an article expiry
> time of, say, a month.
>
> It adds up. It adds up a *lot*.
>
> And that's before you factor in binary groups.
>
> Jim

Yeah. I remember when I was in college, they subscribed to specific
groups that you had to ask for. It wasn't an all you could eat deal
either, they updated the cue every couple of days or so.

From: Jim on 10 Apr 2010 12:55
James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote:

> > Just imagine subscribing to _every_ group there is. Even the ones to do
> > with knitting and making your own crisps. Then have an article expiry
> > time of, say, a month.
> >
> > It adds up. It adds up a *lot*.
> >
> > And that's before you factor in binary groups.
> >
> > Jim
>
> Yeah. I remember when I was in college, they subscribed to specific
> groups that you had to ask for. It wasn't an all you could eat deal
> either, they updated the cue every couple of days or so.

Having said that, I wonder what the actual figures are. I've got a
recent email from news.individual.net so I might try asking them and see
if I get a reply.

Jim
--
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From: Bella Jones on 10 Apr 2010 13:06
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote:
>
> > > News servers use a large amount of disk space. Actually they might not
> > > compared with modern disk sizes, but it is significantly more than zero.
> >
> > Again, fair. You keep hearing disk space is cheap so bloody often you
> > start to equate it to any disk activity at all. Shouldn't I know, but
> > there we go.
>
> Just imagine subscribing to _every_ group there is. Even the ones to do
> with knitting and making your own crisps. Then have an article expiry
> time of, say, a month.

Ooh, what's the crisps one called?

--
bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: Steve Firth on 10 Apr 2010 13:08
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> It adds up. It adds up a *lot*.

Pah, peanuts compared to webforums. Allocating 6TB of SAN to web fora
*for a single site* is far from uncommon.
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