35 terabytes Roy. Wow. :thumbsup:
That would have been the capacity of a server farm 15 years ago.
When I was general manager of an online search company in NJ, where the IT guys were gods, and
really well paid, since the product was digital information, there was a big hoopla when they put their first 1 TB drive in the racks.
They had an almost unlimited budget for computer upgrades, true la la land for an IT tech. This is where I learned about programming and online interfaces.
Never did coding but spend enough time with guys who do it and you start to understand the logic of all those yes-no junctions. One of the earliest companies to deal directly with customers online and I helped QC the user interface. Was part of team who would try to break it. Now that was fun...needless to say not fooling with the running copy.
We worked in a zero defect environment, any and usually every glitch cost the company money. Company made a lot of money and could afford new drives for the racks, particularly faster ones. But then changes to the code would slow the whole thing down, there was an art to streamlining the whole thing so it ran very fast, and cobbled code was a big slowdown. I never understood it but was always fascinated by it.
I didn't handle IT, that was the owner's job, but spent many hours in the room with air conditioned floors and lots of winky lights.
one could be a real digital hoarder with 35TB!
I don't think I've ever filled up a hard drive more than half way.
Remember when we had to constantly fine tune them? Get the air out...clean out all those blank spaces. Bigger the drive, longer
chkdsk (?) ran. Now I'd be afraid to run any optimizer in fear of landing where Roy is now. I'd go to turn pc on next time and I'd get some
blue screen or the spinning top that never stops spinning. Roy knows what he is doing, like some of you, it's like our cars now, too complicated for me.
Thunder is rumbling away. At 3am there was a super loud crash that woke me up, sounded like lightning hit the house.
Didn't of course, but when rain slows down going to take a
close look around to see if any damage. Unsettled weather for sure.
