Not bad, you'll just need around 50 of them per day!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: Ron Rogers [mailto:RROGERS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:15 PM To: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to store 50 Terabytes per day? http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=3D10118 http://shopper.cnet.com/LaCie_Bigger_Disk_Extreme_hard_drive_1_TB_FireWir= e_FireWire_800/4014-3186_9-30815785.html?q=3D and 1.6 TB http://www.provantage.com/buy-7laci02x-1-6-tb-bigger-disk-extreme-firewir= e-7200-rpm-lacie-hard-drives-300874-shopping.htm Ron >>> <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx> 09/08/2004 1:57:05 PM >>> Where did you hear about a terabyte storage device? largest hard drive i have seen is 400 GB?=20 -------------- Original message --------------=20 > I would think that the database would be reasonable in size as the=20 > images could=20 > be stored as .img for example and then referenced as external inside > Oracle.=20 > Isn't that the basic concept used for the map imaging today? There=20 > would be=20 > no problem adding disk drives to accomidate the needed capacity.=20 > Wasn't it a few weeks ago that we heard about a 1TB disk for $1200?=20 -- To unsubscribe - = mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=3Dunsubscribe=20 To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/