Re: New DVR drops jaws in London

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Mark Harrison (Groups) (mph@xxxxxxx):
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 11:37 +0100, James Fidell wrote:
>
> > Not sure what the fascination would be with recording the entire
output
> > of dozens of channels of utter drivel, mind :)
>
> I suspect a trawl through the UKHA archives to find the "did
anyone
> record?" posts would find a ready market for such a device.

What's needed is an "IQ of intended audience" rating :)

> As for cost, well, Moore's law still seems to be holding good, and
hard
> disk prices have dropped by a factor of about 3,000 over the last 11
> years. (In 1994, the rule of thumb was £1 / Mb, now the rule of thumb
is
> £1 / 3Gb.)

Ooooh, jumpers for goalposts.  I recall buying disk at a pound per
megabyte in the early/mid-nineties and thinking it was a great deal.

> Assuming the trend holds, by 2015, the pricing would therefore be
about
> £1 / 10Tb...
>
> ... at which point Phil will have an application for a 20 Petabyte
> array :-)

There can't be that many CDs and videos in the world, surely? :)

> As a serious point, one of the biggest problems facing high-end
> datacentres at the moment is heat generation. Where we used to have a
> single server in a 2U rack, we now have blade servers, which have
> densified the heat generation by a factor of about 10 over the last 5
> years. Looks like that aircon may need uprating soon.

I'm using mine to dry out the cellar at the moment (indirectly heating
the sitting room above).  In the fullness of time I hope to redirect the
heat into the rest of the house to keep it warm during the winter.

James