[Debbits-commit] [SCM] Git repository for debbits branch, master, updated. 6bfda531a4494babca1b78ad043b41b205442625
Ana Beatriz Guerrero ?==?UTF-8?Q?López
ana at ekaia.org
Thu Apr 4 09:02:30 UTC 2013
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6bfda531a4494babca1b78ad043b41b205442625
Author: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana at ekaia.org>
Date: Thu Apr 4 10:45:41 2013 +0200
add some more data to the bytemark post
diff --git a/content/2013/bytemark-donation.md b/content/2013/bytemark-donation.md
index 22f67de..6e82406 100644
--- a/content/2013/bytemark-donation.md
+++ b/content/2013/bytemark-donation.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Status: draft
Thanks to a generous donation by [Bytemark Hosting][bytemark], Debian
started deploying machines for its core infrastructure services in a
-new data centre in York, UK.
+new data center in York, UK.
This hardware and hosting donation will allow the [Debian Systems
Administration (DSA) team][dsa] to distribute Debian's core services across a
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ Additionally, the storage component of this donation will dramatically reduce
the storage challenges that Debian currently faces.
The hardware provided by [Bytemark Hosting][bytemark] consists of a fully-populated
-HP C7000 BladeSystem chassis containing 16 server blades:
+[HP C7000 BladeSystem chassis](http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/enclosures/c-class/c7000/) containing 16 server blades:
-* 12 BL495cG5 blades with 2x Opteron 2347 and 64GiB RAM each
+* 12 BL495cG5 blades with 2x Opteron 2347 and 64GiB RAM each
* 4 BL465cG7 blades with 2x Opteron 6100 series and 128GiB RAM each
and several HP Modular Storage Arrays:
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ and several HP Modular Storage Arrays:
with 108 drive bays in total, mostly 500GiB SATA drives, some 2TB, some 600GB
15kRPM SAS, providing a total of 57 TB.
+57 TB today could host roughly 80 times the current [Debian
+archive](http://www.debian.org/mirror/size) or 3 times
+the [Debian Snapshot](http://snapshot.debian.org/) archive. But remember both archives are constantly growing!
+
[debian]: http://www.debian.org "Debian - The Universal Operating System"
[bytemark]: http://bytemark.co.uk "Bytemark Hosting"
[dsa]: http://dsa.debian.org "Debian Systems Administration (DSA) team"
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