In article <1994Nov16.135537.34079@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Bob
Williams) writes:
>> Hard Disks: Two 2GB SCSI-2, Six 1GB Fast SCSI
>> Total disk space: 10 GB
>
> Seems like this would be fairly limiting: if on average, there is one MB of
> disk space allotted to each student (first-years get .5, do upper class get
> more? Possibly 1.5 still?), then that would mean it could only handle a
totoal
> of 10,240 students, and there are 16,000 here. Granted, not all students use
> there accounts, but this figure does not even include the OS, etc. and all
the
> space that is acquired by students (at up to 25 MB available, not too many
> could do this...). I must be missing something...
Yes. There are 16000 students. There are actually approximately 28,000
accounts (including staff, faculty, branch campus students, etc). It turns
out, though, that few of these accounts are used (around 6000). In
addition, very few of these people actually use all of the space that
they're given. Therefore, all of the users fit in 3GB of disk space. That
averages out to be about .5 MB/active user or .1MB/account. If everyone
decided to log onto their account and use all of the space they were given,
we would be in BIG trouble.
>> CD-ROM Drives: 5
>
> What speed are they? Are they ordinary players, or are they changers, or
what?
They're 600MB drives with a transfer rate of 150 KB/seconds (they're
several years old). They aren't changers, they're just standalone drives
that we use to load software from and to distribute documentation.
One other thing that is part of the system that I forgot is an 8MM tape
drive with a 5 GB capacity.
--
Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
Miami Computing and Information Services
Miami University, Oxford, OH
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