[ILUG] When servers grow up ....

[Frank Peelo]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Foley, Brian (Galway)" <Brian.P.Foley at compaq.com>
To: <valen at redbrick.dcu.ie>; "ILinux" <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] When servers grow up ....


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John P . Looney [mailto:valen at tuatha.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 2:46 PM
> > To: ILinux
> > Subject: Re: [ILUG] When servers grow up ....
> >
> >  And do remember, a server with a brace of disks uses a *lot*
> > more power
> > than a notebook.
>
> Yeah, I think I like 'brace' as a collective noun for hard discs...
>
> Somehow it makes me think of a sysadmin in tweed jacket leaving the
server
> room with his gun carrying a bunch of dead hard discs by their SCSI
cables.

Unfortunately, 'brace' means the same as 'pair'. I submit that a
server with more than 2 disks would also be possible, and would use
even _more_ power.

FP