[bksvol-discuss] Re: storage space for bookshare

  • From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:23:46 -0700

High performance disks used by large servers are more expensive than typical PC or Mac drives. Though, still absolute space probably isn't an issue. 


Misha

EVAN REESE wrote:
I should hope that storage space wouldn't be an issue. Each book on the site takes up less than a couple of megabytes on average; and that is a generous estimate when you figure that the books are compressed. A very long novel, Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton, which I checked, takes up almost exactly two megabytes for the zipped Daisy and brf files put together. Most books will take up less space than that. I could store the entire 
Bookshare library on my laptop and have plenty of space left over.
Evan 
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    Now that you mention it that phrase sounds familiar to me too. And
    if I didn't have the habit of reading and responding to my email
    in the order it came in, but instead read all of it before
    responding, I would have had that phrase in mind from your later
    messages and would not have had to say that I did not recall the
    reason she gave us. Be that as it may, though, she did not tell us
    that it was storage space.
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that 
    justifies the end.
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Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: storage space for bookshare Date: 9/6/2009 10:55:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end 

    The reason Pavi gave was the one I already mentioned: that it was
    stressful for the database to deliver those long lists. I no
    longer have the message here,
but I recall that phrase distinctly. Evan 
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    I can't help but think that you are remembering wrong. I remember
    Pavi explaining the reason for not displaying more than a hundred
    results. I do not remember
    the reason she gave, but I do not recall it being storage space. I
    remember it being something else.
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that 
    justifies the end.
" Leon Trotsky 
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Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: storage space for bookshare Date: 9/6/2009 1:03:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end 

    It startled me too when engineering talked about not being able to
    show all of "check in books" as one list because of storage space
    considerations.
    You and I Larry both agree about storeage being inexpensive. No idea
    what is going on except they told me storeage was an issue for them.
    E.

    At 12:59 AM 9/6/2009, you wrote:
    >I just bought a 1 terabyte drive for $89.  Two terabytes are
    running for
    >about 200.  I can't imagine storage is the problem.
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    >Storage space may indeed be an issue. Apparently, storage space is
    one of
    >the reasons cited by engineering for not having the entire "check
    in books"
    >page come up as one list so we can search the entire list instead
    of the way
    >it is now where we can only search a hundred at a time.
    >
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