[Developers] disk space usage reporting

[Erik Schnetter]

On Oct 20, 2006, at 04:35:19, Steve White wrote:

> Let me just toss this idea out:
>
> We have a lot of disk space trouble.  It often disturbs users'  
> otherwise
> professional demeanor, and taints their otherwise collaborative  
> atmosphere.
>
> The usual remedies proposed, "get a bigger mass storage device"

Consider that one can buy 1 TByte of disk space for about $1000, and  
that the disk will last about 3 years.  That means that disk space  
costs about $0.02 / GByte / month.

If a job runs for one week and requires 500 GByte of disk space, then  
this corresponds to a price tag of $2.5.

Six people (so far) discussing this problem on an email list, each  
person taking five minutes, costs already ten times as much.

-erik

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