John Andersen said the following on 10/17/2013 09:23 PM:
On 10/17/2013 4:45 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
WOW!
Considering you can install openSuse in about 20G - I run it that way on one workstation and mount /home (and everything below that such as ~/Media and ~/Projects) via NFS, 700G is an AWFUL LOT.
Anton, you gotta get out more buddy.
Go surf any big maker or retailer and you will see 500Gig is an entry level desktop or laptop, and a performance desktop starts at 1TB.
Yes, I have those. Servers eat them. But regular readers will recall that I make a point of being able to run non-lightweight contemporary Linux on machines out of the Closet of Anxieties which can't even run Windows 7. As for small 'disks' Chromebooks come with ones a lot smaller than that. A buddy at the coffee shop has a Acer C710 which he loaded up with more memory, took out the 320GB hard drive it came with and replaced it with a 120GB SSD. At Best Buy locally the come with a 16GB SD, just like the 16GB on most tablets and phones. Yes, the 'cloud' changes many things. So does running VDI workstations. Those 1T drives aren't fast enough for many VDI setups that use VMWare to multi-instance Windows and need something more like the SSD-cached system of Whiptail that Cisco has just bought. That is why I prefer Linux and PXE and NFS for VDI. While it increases the startup bandwidth, it doesn't make the storage, server computer, server memory or long term bandwidth demands that the VMWare/Windows does. In fact its rather like the 'cloud' operation of tablets and Chromebooks in some regards. Its also cooler in that you can offer the user different versions -- which system to boot, versions of Linux, Solaris-86 etc. I'm told you can offer then Windows but I've not looked into that. The 'big makers' made big by selling BIG - the 'consume more' principle, 'intensification of resource consumption' the sociologists call it.. What was it Hank said: "small cars, small profits". Don't call me Green, but I've worked so often for small firms and startups which have been budget limited (or the budget went to sales & promotion and not IT) that I've found parsimony a good trend. And heck, some file systems can handle compression. -- "Nothing is more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things." -- Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org