[volunteergrid2-l] 5 nodes!

[Billy Earney]

Kevan,

My node is at home as well.  Its pretty cheap hardware.  I bought a
barebones system last year for $200, and moved a few components from my old
machine.  A new 1TB harddrive costs < $100 (sata), and you can still get
500GB IDE drives cheaply as well, if your hardware is quite a few years old.

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[mailto:volunteergrid2-l-bounces at tahoe-lafs.org] On Behalf Of Kevan
Carstensen
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:44 PM
To: a small group of people sharing storage resources with Tahoe-LAFS
Subject: Re: [volunteergrid2-l] 5 nodes!

At 2011-01-19 08:28 (-0700), Shawn Willden wrote:

> Yes, that's a good first step.  Reviewing the list archives, it looks like
> the only person who's e-mailed the list but hasn't set up a node is Kevan
> Carstensen, though he was only planning on providing 100 GiB, so our 500
GB
> minimum may have scared him off.
> 
> Kevan?

You are (unfortunately) right.

I was initially planning on using hardware that I had sitting around as
a node, which could then be accessed through my home connection. That
doesn't really square with your uptime goals, though -- my home Internet
connection doesn't have an SLA, nor is my hardware particularly capable
of handling failures gracefully. The obvious alternative (a VPS with an
S3/other cloud storage backend) would provide acceptable uptime and
motivation for me to implement RAIC, but has monthly costs (for 500 GiB,
anyway) that I can't really commit to.

I'd still like to stay subscribed to your list; it is interesting to
read, even if I'm not participating in the grid, but you can direct
zooko to remove me if you want. :-)

-- 
Kevan Carstensen | <kevan at isnotajoke.com>
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