[tech] A question of File System

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On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 17:43, Grahame Bowland wrote:

    Magnetic beads make for cute non-volatile storage.

Unfortunately that storage idea is somewhat impractical. Seeing as I'm
trying to store mp3s onto it.
Though it would be an interesting way to consume the back wall of 'the
machine room' (meaning the room which has more then one computer in it)

<mum> what's that?
<me> 40gigs of magnetic beads in a parrallel raid array.

In fact, one would need 343,597,383,680 beads in order to store 40gigs.
Assuming each bead was a square centimeter (which read/write heads and
wires etc) you would require 343598 cubic metres of space to store those
beads.

Perhaps I should rephrase my hypothetical conversation:

<mum> what's that small warehouse?
<me> mp3 storage facility made from a fuckload of small beads

--davYd "the I used python to work out those numbers, any mistakes blame
Guido" Madeley