[Gllug] cheap disk source

[Andy Farnsworth]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 08:09:30PM +0100, Ian Norton-Badrul wrote:
>   
>> Hi Guys n Gals,
>>
>> I'm pricing up bits to build myself a new RAID array for my 'in-the-garage'
>> server, so far I figure that I can get four 320Gb disks for about 170 quid form
>> ebuyer, Anyone know of any better? 
>>     
>
> Here are 500GB disks @ 65/each - slighly cheaper / byte and leaves you
> for room with expansion (since you use fewer disks). Hitachi Sata II.
>
> 	http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/products/product.asp?id=159097
>
>   
Here is a scary statistic from the above web page:

Hitachi Deskstar 500GB SATA-II
56 hours of HDTV broadcast

That seems amazingly small to me...

That is about 9 Gb / hour which makes HDTV twice (or more) the size of DVD.

Andrew
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