[OAM-talk] Moving forward (was: Completing the OAM PSC electionprocess)

[Jeffrey Johnson]

> Serving would certainly be an issue if we got 120 desktop machines with 250
> gigs each (which we could probably find in the trash cans of some
> organizations).

If you can find 120 rack mountable desktop machines with 250GB each in
them and find a place to put them in a rack somewhere, we can
certainly put them to use ... would make a nice processing cluster
actually if they had reasonably modern processors.

> So, it's not *just* disk and bandwidth.  But if CPU isn't an issue, 8
> servers @ 4 terabytes each seems like about the sweet spot in balancing
> cost, space, and power consumption.

On what are you basing that?