__/ [Gordon Hudson] on Sunday 20 November 2005 20:47 \__
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dlqe24$1q8c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I thought the following was quite interesting. If true, Google will be far
>> more capable of crawling more content.
>>
>
> I have seen some of Google's hardware.
> Motherboards mounted into racks with cable ties into "pizza shelf"
> brackets. No cases......
I guess fidelity is not an issue when data is easily recoverable
(refetchable, or datacentres redundancy). I once read that Intel's chips
cost $50 to make so these motherboard can probably be bought by the pound.
How do you know when a computer like that is running out of space? Would you
get an message saying "warning: your hard-drive is over 90% full. You have
only 350,000 gigabytes left"?
Roy
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