Disks Solve Web Problems
Total documents on the Web: 50 million
- numbers from HotBot, AltaVista, etc.
Average size per document: 20KB
=> 1TB total Web contents
(250 + 50 parity) 4G disks + 10 PCs
$600 per 4G disk, $2K per PC
=> $200K disk farm holds all Web documents
Many organizations can afford it!