Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3160] Developers Must Play

[Bryan Jackson <Bryan123@netins.net>]

I baught a 40 Gig drive from maxtor for 205. Put them on a UDMA 66 bus and a
7200 RPM h/d I get about 11 meg/s throughput over 1 hour.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Ahn" <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>
To: <vanilla-list@us.netrek.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3160] Developers Must Play


> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 09:56:17AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:16:50AM -0700, Tom Holub wrote:
> > > I think a per-frame fork() is insane.  What do you plan to do with it,
> > > write a gif for every frame?  In a 90 minute game that's 54000 files,
not
> > > to mention 54000 fork()'s, and assuming 10k files, 540 megabytes of
disk
> > > space.
> >
> > Karthik just picked up three 40Gb disks at $USD180 each, and that seems
> > like quite a reasonable price.  That's about $USD2.43 worth of disk for
> > each 90 minute game.  I think we can afford that.
>
> Can these 40GB disks do sustained 8MB/sec writes for 90 minutes?
>
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