[Developers] disk space usage reporting

[Steve White]

Erik,

That terabyte will be full before the weekend is over.

On 20.10.06, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Erik Schnetter <schnetter at cct.lsu.edu>
> 
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